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What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?” (lemmy.world)

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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago

Android being bought by Google

[-] Gpinmg@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

🤯 Holy crap how did I not know this! I thought they developed it in house!

[-] CMahaff@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago

Looked up the history and they bought it so early on that effectively the whole thing was developed by Google.

They bought the startup in 2005 and the first phone came out in 2008.

[+] papalonian@lemmy.world -6 points 9 months ago

Android used to be it's own thing, check out the "Droid" phones.

[-] rivingtondown@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What do you mean by this? What did Motorola Droid phones have to do with Google owning Android or Android being it's own company back in like... 2003? The first Droid used Android as developed by Google in 2009. Google had aquired Android years prior to Droid being a thing. Most Android devices are not created by Google, even to this day.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I didn't realize that Google owned the company at that time. I don't remember the advertisements blasting Google's name like they tend to do now. I know that most Android phones aren't made by Google, I was mistaken in thinking the Droid was a popular android device prior to acquisition

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

This is exactly why they started blasting their name on everything lol

[-] notatoad@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

"droid" was actually a verizon brand, not motorola or google. any droid-branded phone was a verizon rebranding of a phone that was sold as something else outside the US.

but yeah, android never existed outside of google. Google bought out android before their first public release.

[-] Demographics@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago

The Droid turbo phone did nothing wrong.

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