[SmokingJoe]

Basic logic: By buying a company with extensive experience in a field, your company instantly gains that experience

You kinda like how Apple got the entire iPod idea (the precursor to the iPhone), from a guy named Tony Fadell, who was the real father of the iPod, by employing Tony Fadell?
And how said Tony Fadell then partnered with a company called PortalPlayer who had been working on their own MP3 player to design the software for the new Apple player?
http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/iPod.htm

If you are claimg that Google employed people with OS exoreince from other firms so therefore Anroid was not really developed by Google, what do you call Apple employing others to develop the OS for their iPod then?

[antiRepublicrat]

Others coming to mind:

Microsoft didn't have experience in diagramming software. Bought Visio, ta-da, instant diagramming software expertise, arguably the best on the market.

Adobe didn't have experience or a product in page layout. Bought Aldus, ta-da, instant page layout expertise. Adobe used that expertise to "Adobeize" PageMaker and add some features, then turned it towards making the ultimate page layout program, InDesign (turns out PageMaker was fundamentally broken and couldn't be easily made to fully compete with Quark).

Google had little experience in mobile advertising. Bought AdMob, ta-da, instant mobile advertising expertise. Same for Apple buying Quattro.

The list goes on and on. Companies have some main choices when they want to get into a new business.

• They can go it all alone, but that means a long time to market as they gain the expertise, develop technologies and build products from scratch. This is how you portrayed Google's production of the Android OS.
• They can license the technology, but then they're beholden to another company or license, and don't gain instant expertise for further development. This is how Microsoft got into the browser business.
• They can buy the technology, but then they don't get any expertise for later development. This is how Macromedia got the drawing program Freehand.
• They can hire employees of a company with the technology, but then they don't have any rights to the technology, don't get existing product, and can easily run into trade secrets issues. This is how Microsoft developed Windows NT.
• Or they can buy a company. They get the product, the rights to the technology, and the employees with the expertise for further development. This is how Google really developed the Android OS.

Any claim, any hint, even the idea that Google produced Android having no prior mobile OS experience is just ridiculous. Google gained that experience the instant Google bought Android, Inc.