Hugo Barra, director of Google Product Management, holds up the new Google Nexus7. | Paul Sakuma~ap
Hugo Barra, product management director of Android, holds up a Samsung Galaxy Nexus to give out to attendees of Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco during the keynote on June 27, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Kimihiro HoshinoKIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/GettyImages
Google, like Microsoft, got the holy hell beaten out of them in mobile space. Both companies bandaged their wounds, spent some time in rehab, and during a weekend retreat with a trusted spiritual adviser, came to the same life-changing realization: Steve Jobs was right: a …