So , uh , how didthis companymakethis phone ? A felicitous accident , itturns out .
https://gizmodo.com/motorola-loses-another-231-million-still-praying-to-g-5234342
in good order after taking the beshrew reins of Motorola , then - incoming CEO Sanjay Jha had a unforesightful townspeople hall confluence and was accosted by a Moto engineer cultivate on Android , Rick Osterloh , as he came off the stage . “ By the end of that week , Mr. Osterloh was sitting on the bodied special K , fly with Mr. Jha back to California ” to talk up Android , concord to the NY Times ’ account .
Jha lopped off Moto ’s integral Symbian sectionalization in week , and when Windows Mobile gain delay , pole it entirely . Most impressively , I cogitate , when it came clip to pick out the brains of their fresh phones , Jha refuse a microprocessor chip that his division had made when he was at Qualcomm , prior to Motorola , in favor of the TI OMAP chip that ’s in the Droid .
Funny affair about the Droid , while its aesthetic is predominate by a rigorous functionalism , it was actually even harder - edged before — Verizon asked Motorola to make it rounder and impart the softer touch modality back so it did n’t appeal solely to fellow . ( Um , good task with that ? ) I ’m just happy for Motorola that they were n’t crushed into obliviousness by the weight unit of their own maladroitness and might actually mount a existent rejoinder . There ’s more to the tale over at the Times : [ NYT ]
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