When it first came out it could've. RIM didn't think they had a second-rate user experience, don't people remember all the talk about physical keyboards? As fa

When it first came out it could've. RIM didn't think they had a second-rate user experience, don't people remember all the talk about physical keyboards? As far as I can tell, the first touchscreen Android phone came out in late 2009 (HTC Magic, according to this: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-android-htc-touch,news-3494.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-android-htc-touch,news-34...) That's a full two years after the release of the iPhone. It took time for Google to start competing on the iPhone's turf, and that's why the relationship changed.