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megablast on March 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Android Captures #1 Position in U.S. Smartp...

To create an android phone, means writing an OS, giving it away, and trying to get hardware developers, app developers, and advertisers on board. That is not going to be easy,

Microsoft might have a chance, if they started to give away their OS, but probably not.

artsrc on March 7, 2011 [–]

I think Intel would be the company to give it a shot. They were part of thing Nokia walked away from.

Android uses Linux, you don't have to write an OS from completely from scratch.

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