Believe it or not Android was response to Microsoft's Windows Mobile(Windows Phone) and not to Apple's Iphone. Google was afraid at the time that Microsoft will

Believe it or not Android was response to Microsoft's Windows Mobile(Windows Phone) and not to Apple's Iphone. Google was afraid at the time that Microsoft will release it's own "smartphone" and put Bing(Windows Live Search) as default search engine on it. But eventually Windows Phone killed itself and Google is good to go.