Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
&quot;Google was terrified that Apple would end up ruling the mobile space. So, to help in the fight against the iPhone at a time when Google had no mobile foothold whatsoever, Android was launched as an open source project.&quot;<p>This is not a quote from anyone because it&#x27;s false.
Andy started Android <i>well</i> before anyone knew iPhone existed (years). I say existed only because I don&#x27;t know offhand when Apple started iPhone internally, so i can&#x27;t say for sure he started it before Apple did, but i suspect that&#x27;s true as well.<p>Andy left Danger in 2003 to go start to create Android.  The first iPhone was not released until mid-2007.<p>Google was terrified, but it was terrified the <i>carriers</i> would end up owning the mobile space, because they already were.<p>Andy also didn&#x27;t open source Android to &quot;get a foothold in something&quot;.<p>He&#x27;s literally said his reasons before.<p>Given how poorly researched just this simple paragraph is (it literally can&#x27;t be true), it would take a lot of time to point out how bad the rest is too.