The original pre-Google Android was a Blackberry-killer, and I don't reckon that was a good way to go.

You can see some early prototype devices here: https://www.androidcentral.com/android-pre-history

As usual for Ars, it has a far more detailed history, with pre-1.0 screenshots: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-4...

You can see that, before the iPhone, it started out as a Blackberry clone, or something like it. And that, IMHO, was far to geeky a toy to change the world as the iPhone did.