Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 days agoYes, they incentivize another 0.001%. How is google going to survive this?
Tech geeks acting as multiplication factors are the people who brought Apple from obscurity to mainstream.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 days ago
That was 40 years ago. Any more recent examples?
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I don’t agree with the other person but the closest example that I could find would be OnePlus. They had no physical shops, used word of mouth (influencers), had good marketing (flagship killer), and were relatively cheap. They quickly rose the ranks and became a mainstream brand.