That's not how i remember the early days of what eventually became Android, i was a Google tester for the very earliest non public, invite only project, then for first the first public, then beta etc, it still wasn't called android.
Samsung had very little to do with developing android, the company who.did the most, and the best work on/for andriod was the now sadly defunct XDA/HTC.
Every tester, developer etc etc used htc hardware and when HTC released the legendary HD2, nobody used anything else for almost 3 years,and the HD2 is still unique in being able to run x86 windows desk top OS's, Microsoft mobile OS' s, etc etc, the only OS ive never seen installed and run on an HD2 is (cr) apple OS or software etc but then why would anyone waste even 2 seconds doing that, except to prove a point..
Nobody but nobody used samsung, who hardly existed in phones and the few they managed to chuck out were basically crap..
As per usual, the Americans idea of history is vastly different to those of us living outside that lunatics asylum...