Androids - Lectura Social

Tapa blanda, 412 páginas

Publicado el 11 de Agosto de 2021 por Chet Haase.

ISBN:: 978-1-7373548-1-9

(1 reseña)

In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software. But they couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, shipping an operating system (including camera software) to over three billion devices worldwide.

This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.

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It has been really nice to learn the destination of some of the people in the BeOS team. The story itself is interesting and the book is good at times, but at other moments it drags a lot.

It makes me think of [b:Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made|40492|Revolution in The Valley The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made|Andy Hertzfeld|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388288490l/40492.SX50.jpg|40082] as the author is not a professional writer... and it shows.

Some people compare it to [b:Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age|1101290|Dealers of Lightning Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age|Michael A. Hiltzik|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349086333l/1101290.SX50.jpg|1088176] to which I can only say "no way". The impact of Xerox PARC on computing is in another league and cannot be compared to what the Android team developed and [a:Michael A. Hiltzik|206718|Michael A. …

It has been really nice to learn the destination of some of the people in the BeOS team. The story itself is interesting and the book is good at times, but at other moments it drags a lot.

It makes me think of [b:Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made|40492|Revolution in The Valley The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made|Andy Hertzfeld|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388288490l/40492.SX50.jpg|40082] as the author is not a professional writer... and it shows.

Some people compare it to [b:Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age|1101290|Dealers of Lightning Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age|Michael A. Hiltzik|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1349086333l/1101290.SX50.jpg|1088176] to which I can only say "no way". The impact of Xerox PARC on computing is in another league and cannot be compared to what the Android team developed and [a:Michael A. Hiltzik|206718|Michael A. Hiltzik|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] is a far better writer than Chet Haase. But we must stress that Haase is also a far better developer than Hiltzik.