Andy Rubin , the now - departed former knob of Google ’s Android division , has revealed that the O was initially developed to mightiness digital cameras , before the falloff in snapper sale encourage his squad to plow it into a roving headphone organisation .
“ The exact same weapons platform , the accurate same operating system we built for camera , that became Android for cell , ” Rubin say attendees at an economic forum in Tokyo . “ We decided digital photographic camera was n’t actually a big enough grocery store . I was disquieted about Microsoft and I was disturbed about Symbian , I was n’t worried about iPhone yet . ”
Rubin usher off a presentment he put together in 2004 , which showed a digital photographic camera link up to a computer and upload images to a fundamental host known as the … Android Datacenter . Once he ’d flip-flop it to a mobile OS , Android and Rubin ’s squad were acquired by Google in 2005 . [ PC World ]
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