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Google didn't wake up on June 28th 2007 and say, "Shit, we'd better make a phone OS", and then release it 15 months later. Both were under development for year
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
Google didn't wake up on June 28th 2007 and say, "Shit, we'd better make a phone OS", and then release it 15 months later.
Both were under development for years before they were released. The idiots who think Android is just an iOS clone, forget this point.
- geuis 15y agoNo one is making any kind of argument that Android is an iOS clone. At least I'm not. Yes, both were in development for years before the world got to see anything. To the original point of my comment, though, Android didn't predate iOS by years as the parent comment says. That comment implies that iOS copied from Android, which I am refuting.
- mike-cardwell 15y ago"predates the iPhone's unveiling by years" The word you've missed is "unveiling". He did not claim that Android came before iOS, but that it was under development for long before iOS was unveiled. EDIT: The point that you're refuting was never made. He simply said that Android would still have existed, even if iOS hadn't. And to prove that point, he correctly stated that Android was under development for a long period of time before iOS was unveiled
- beatle 15y agoYeah but Android used to look like this before the iPhone was unveiled. http://news.cnet.com/i/ne/p/2008/android_prototype_550x385.jpg http://news.cnet.com/i/ne/p/2008/android_prototype_550x385.j...
- mike-cardwell 15y agoCorrect... That isn't being disputed. The comment was: "While Android would definitely exist (it predates the iPhone's unveiling by years) it would be a very, very different beast." The "controversy" is around the claim of Android existing before iOS. That claim wasn't even made though if you read that comment correctly and notice the word "unveiling"
- css771 15y agoIncorrect. That image is banded around just to serve a particular viewpoint. There was already a capacitive touchscreen android device in the prototype stages at the same time. Look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1FJHYqE0RDg#t=174s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
- beatle 15y agoI don't think so.
- css771 15y agoYou can think whatever you want. Fact is fact.
- beatle 15y agoit's not fact. you're deluding yourself.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoYou're not making a very convincing argument.