Chapter 56

In 2009, the mobile phone industry was actually in a rather awkward spot. Feature phones still occupied the lion's share of the market. As for smartphones, Google released the open-source Android operating system back in 2008, but there was nobody who noticed the superiority of the Android system at this juncture. For example, Nokia—the absolute kings of the industries at this time—threw all their resources into the Symbian system, a mobile operating system designed for smartphones, with the ambitious dream of staying the industry leaders for another ten years. But in just another year, a clear victor would emerge from the competition between Android and Symbian. Android phones would effortlessly take the world by storm, while industry giants such as Nokia and Motorola would be left in the dust. The phones that Benjamin was preparing to invest his entire fortune into hoarding were definitely the feature phones that had been experiencing an economic downturn recently. He was prob