Early Days of XDA Developers and HTC, and the Origins of Siri

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The rise of XDA developers, a website for software modification, was a huge success. In just three years, it gained 100,000 members. The XDA devices were made by a company called high tech computer corporation (HTC). Despite not making phones anymore, HTC produced some of the best smartphones back then. XDA developers showed that the smartest people were outside companies like Sun Microsystems. Rich Miner, a man working at Orange Ventures, had a company called Wildfire Communications, which was a precursor to Siri.

Today we've got another special episode! Don't worry, there will be another regular episode on Friday. In today's episode David tries to find out what happened to Android ROMming? There was a time when flashing the latest nightly on your phone had an entire community built around it, but those days disappeared.. rather suddenly. What happened? We investigate.

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Mishaal Rahman: https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman

Rich Miner: https://twitter.com/richminer

Stefanie Kondik: https://twitter.com/cyanogen

Lineage OS team: https://lineageos.org/

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Rich Miner History of Android: https://bit.ly/richminerhistoryofandroid

ZTE article: https://bit.ly/ztetradeban

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