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> If you focus only on the single feature that is multi-touch, sure, but it's the entire package that likely pissed Jobs off. The "entire package" of Android i
by zmmmmm 15y ago
> If you focus only on the single feature that is multi-touch, sure, but it's the entire package that likely pissed Jobs off.
The "entire package" of Android included a huge number of features that the iPhone did not, many of which later got incorporated into iOS.
> Pre-iPhone, Android's demo phones looked like a BlackBerry clone
As I understand it they had full screen touch-based prototypes as well. They were experimenting with everything. Of course, what actually emerged into production was iPhone-like because by then the market had moved in that direction.
- beatle 15y ago>As I understand it they had full screen touch-based prototypes as well. They were experimenting with everything. wrong.
- fpgeek 15y agoAbsolutely. Google couldn't possibly have been doing anything with full-screen touch-based smartphones. They were a software company and weren't working with anyone who'd built such a device before. </sarcasm> Sorry, for all that I wasn't personally a fan, I remember how amazing the O2 XDA (and its its immediate relatives) were at the time and I have to stick up for them (and HTC, of course).