While working at Symbian, I initiated a small group to research the then newly launched Android SDK preview. It was November 2007. The study produced an internal seminar to "warn" Symbian of the big "challenge" that Android was going to represent for Symbian: 1. open source OS 2. much easier to get started SDK 3. performant desktop simulator 4. known JDK platform 5. substantially easier to bring developers into the ecosystem Symbian R&D didn't really listen, but this effort and our names was eventually made part of a book by David Wood, "Smartphones and Beyond" (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NAZTCTW), in which he, as VP for Research, describes the rise and fall of Symbian.