As Steven Levy described in his book “In the Plex,” Google soon acquired Android, the mobile phone operating system, and began building a phone business that it has since developed into a juggernaut.
Even after Google acquired Android in 2005, it continued to play down plans to enter the phone business for several more years. It wasn’t until the summer of 2008 that Steven P. Jobs at Apple actually took notice and went to Google’s headquarters to inspect one of its prototype handsets.
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