A History of Silicon Valley
This biography is an appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley"
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(Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi)
Andy Rubin
Andy Rubin (New York, 1963?)
studied computer science at Utica College until 1986 and then joined
Carl Zeiss AG.
In 1989 he joined Apple, where he met Perlman. He followed Perlman to
General Magic and then to Perlman's own WebTV.
In october 2002 Rubin, Matt Hershenson and Joe Britt
founded Danger that released the mobile phone Hiptop, later renamed T-Mobile Sidekick.
Danger was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.
Meanwhile,
Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White (another WebTV alumnus) had
founded Android in Palo Alto
to develop a Linux-based open-source operating system for mobile phones.
In 2005 they were purchased by Google that
started distributing for free Android in 2007.
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