Login

Post on Medial

Mr Z

 • 

Medial • 14d

Everyone laughed when Google bought a 22-month-old startup for $50 Million... Now, that "startup" has 3.9 BILLION users. It makes more money than Snapchat, Airbnb and Uber COMBINED. Here's how a "tiny" purchase now powers half the world: 2003: A tiny startup in Palo Alto had a wild idea. Not for phones — but for digital cameras. The founder, Andy Rubin, wanted to create an OS that would connect cameras to the cloud. The team noticed a massive shift: People were ditching standalone cameras for phones. So they pivoted to mobile. They planned to charge licensing fees — just like Microsoft. But when Android pitched Samsung in Seoul... Samsung laughed: "You have 6 people. Microsoft has thousands." 2 weeks later, with their bank account nearly empty, Larry Page called. He saw something everyone missed: If Microsoft dominated mobile like they did PCs, Google's future was at risk. After that google acquired android for $50M and they expanded beyond phones.

14 replies19 likes
4
Replies (14)

More like this

Recommendations from Medial

Techxaii

Stealth • 1m

Gemini Live Now Available for Free on All Android Phones

0 replies
Image Description
Image Description

Prathamesh Galwe

Stealth • 2d

DO YOU KNOW...... Which is the world's largest smartphone factory? In July 2018, Samsung Inaugurated what it called the world's largest mobile factory in Noida... With this new facility, Samsung will double its current capacity for mobile phones i

See More
3 replies3 likes
Image Description
Image Description

Aryan patil

 • 

Monkey Ads • 7m

3 best Ai browsers you must use today for efficient browsing You.com : available for Android,iOS,windows Microsoft edge : available for Android,iOS, windows Brave browser (Leo) : Available for Android,iOS, windows

12 replies8 likes
2
Anonymous
Image Description

Anonymous

Stealth • 2m

Business idea- There are not many creative phone cases for samsung and other android phones like iphone have.I think there is a huge market gap in supply demand in thie field ,someone please jump in this industry .PS: I'll be your first customer

2 replies6 likes
Image Description
Image Description

Chamarti Sreekar

Stealth • 16d

Most smartphone makers are using ODMs to make phones Even Samsung uses ODMs Most Motorola phones are ODM-based Many phone makers use ODMs to save costs and produce phones faster so that they can launch them quickly in the market, especially budget

See More
7 replies4 likes
Image Description

Shubham Soni

Stealth • 1m

Today Mobile Covers are increasing Day by Day because people changing their phones in just 2-3 years. So my startup idea is making online application to sell Second hand mobile covers an mobile accessories.

1 replies4 likes
Anonymous
Image Description

Anonymous

Stealth • 3m

📸 Xiaomi phones will be able to detect hidden cameras - an overpowered feature found in the upcoming HyperOS 2.0. The smartphone will scan for suspicious signals from wireless devices, which could be cameras or spy gadgets. If you travel frequentl

See More
2 replies5 likes
Anonymous
Image Description
Image Description

Anonymous

Stealth • 5m

I want to build an OS. Is anyone here interested in building OS for mobile phones? Pls let me know

5 replies2 likes
Anonymous
Image Description
Image Description

Anonymous

Stealth • 7m

What do you think about the upcoming generation? I see kids are equipped with mobile phones and they love watching reels and short videos too much. What do you see coming?

17 replies15 likes

UBED

Stealth • 4m

Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975. They developed software for personal computers, including BASIC for IBM PC. Windows 1.0 was released in 1985, followed by Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, 8, & 10. Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, shif

See More
0 replies4 likes

Download the medial app to read full posts, comements and news.