Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th May 2012 10:10 UTC, submitted by bowkota
This is absolutely fascinating. Steven Troughton-Smith has gotten his hands on one of the two early Android prototypes - the Google 'Sooner'. The Sooner is the BlackBerry-esque Google phone, which was supposed to be released first, followed by the much more advanced Google Dream (yup, what would eventually become the G1). Lots of high-res screenhots to get a good look at early Android. Update: Fascinating comment.
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I see this as a classic case of the innovator's dilemma.
RIM, MS, Nokia, Palm, etc. already had customers and were making money on their product.
Google did not.
Edited 2012-05-07 18:12 UTC