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?

  • papalonian@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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
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      1 year ago

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

    • notatoad@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.