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There was a time when Nokia was the Goliath and was leading the pack with its Symbian OS.<\/p>\n
It came up with quite a few exciting smartphones from its famous earth-shattering 3310 feature phone to hot cakes like its XpressMusic, E, and N series.<\/p>\n
This was a period of great prosperity for Nokia with its consumer division enjoying a whopping half a billion phones annual sales.<\/p>\n
Nokia was completely consumed (blinded as well) by the huge success it had achieved over the years.<\/p>\n
Success is something that tends to make great organizations become complacent.<\/p>\n
While Nokia was in its heyday, Apple, not a name synonymous with smartphones then, was quietly brewing a storm behind the walls of its ol\u2019 Cupertino Campus.<\/p>\n
And in 2007, Apple dropped the bomb by introducing its iPhone 3G and changed the way we looked at mobile devices forever.<\/p>\n
But Apple wanted to keep control of its OS and didn\u2019t allow other mobile manufacturers to leverage the power of iOS.<\/p>\n
This offered a great opportunity to Google, who was also cooking Android in its kitchen.<\/p>\n
Since Android was an open platform and offered loads of customization options, it attracted a ton of mobile phone manufacturers.<\/p>\n
And the rest, as they say, is history.<\/p>\n
Now Android has graduated to become one of the most popular mobile operating systems in the world and powers billions of devices including smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and even cars.<\/p>\n
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