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Sweet Beginnings - Android Retrospective: Part 1

The first 3 official versions. A few days ago, I teased a Android Retrospective. I was getting tired of waiting and decided to make it right now. Happy early Thanksgiving, and The Weekly Marshmallow presents: Part One of the Android Retrospective. In this part, we will look at the founding of Android, some early years, and the first 3 versions. So let's look at Android's first few sweets. Early Years Founding Android Incorporated was founded in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. Rubin described the Android product as having "Tremendous potential" At this time, it wasn't owned by Google. The company's early products  were to develop a advanced operating system for cameras. This was the pitch to investors in April 2004. Soon after that, the company decided that the market for cameras was too small for it's goals, and 5 months later they changed it's efforts to making a handset operating system to rival Symbian a...

Outrageous and Weird Fast-Food Knock-Offs from Around the World

Domino's exactly as I remember it. So, whenever there's something popular, some people have to piggyback off of it and get that extra cash. If it's video games, clothing, merchandise, or anything ever, there is a rip-off of it. Most of these are from China, but some come from Iran, Iraq, and sometimes even the UK. The fast-food knock-offs are pretty funny, so I am here to share some with you. Today, we are looking at 5 fast-food restaurants and some weird knock-offs. Why eat at McDonald's when you can eat at... Mash Donald's! My favorite!  McDonald's has it's fair share of knock-offs, Up above is Mash Donald's, a rip-off of McDonald's in Iran. Since it is the, you know, largest restaurant in the world. American fast food restaurants are banned in Iran, because America. So they have to have something to replace it, right? McDonald's knock-offs range from MaDonal, to OMcMcDnoald's, to McKebab (I am not making these up) to some that a...

A Sweet, Sweet Story - An Android Retrospective (Teaser)

All Android versions, Cupcake to Oreo. I bet you know what Android is. Some of you might be reading this on an Android device. But have you ever looked closer at you phone, tablet etc. And wondered how that little Bugdroid started out in the electronic business? Well, if you ever did, we are here to tell you all of Android's sweet treats, from A-Z. From Cupcake to Oreo, Eclair to Kit Kat, and anything in between. We present to you our 4-part Android retrospective. Desserts from A-Z Android names all of their operating systems after sweets and desserts. They also name their versions in alphabetical order, except for A and B. It started with Cupcake, released in 2009. If you look up at the picture earlier, they are alphabetical. With the next version being Donut, then Eclair, and then Froyo, then the list goes on. This retrospective will be split into 4 parts: Part 1: Sweet Beginnings, Part 2: Android's Rise, Part 3: More Sweets, and Part 4: Modern Versions. Each one...