• unalivejoy@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Android started out as a framework for blackberry. So probably we’d all be using blackberries.

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      And taking that a step further, I believe it was Blackberry that was proliferating the free text messages thing at the time (so long as it was to another Blackberry) so that could even have led to not enough market room for third-parties like WhatsApp and Kik to dominate the way they did.

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      3 days ago

      No kidding? I don’t recall that.

      First I read was in Windows NT mag about 1999,they had a working prototype, but without a touch screen.

      Of course it wasn’t called Android, yet.