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Um, so? First, iOS was in development for years. Early Android didn't look anything like the final product. It was changed to copy iOS in extraordinarily obviou
by Bud 10y ago
Um, so? First, iOS was in development for years. Early Android didn't look anything like the final product. It was changed to copy iOS in extraordinarily obvious ways after Eric Schmidt was able to steal Apple's IP while he was on the Apple board.
Early Android had no touchscreen and was more similar to the BlackBerry. If you read the Wikipedia article you just linked to, you'd learn that:
>Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006.[37] An earlier prototype codenamed "Sooner" had a closer resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen, and a physical, QWERTY keyboard, but was later re-engineered to support a touchscreen, to compete with other announced devices such as the 2006 LG Prada and 2007 Apple iPhone.[38][39] In September 2007, InformationWeek covered an Evalueserve study reporting that Google had filed several patent applications in the area of mobile telephony.[40][41]