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Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1508/ https://xkcd.com/1508/

• jbverschoor 3y ago
  The pre-iOS Android was a blackberry clone
  • b112 3y ago
    Did you just reply with random OS names? Android isn't iOS, the first release version looked and was nothing like Blackberry devices. (If you're making sense, clarity might help for me/others?)
    • orev 3y ago
      Google initially was working on Android as more of a Blackberry clone, and then when Apple announced iOS they realized that a full screen touch system was the future. So they scrapped the Blackberry clone OS and scrambled to get something more like iOS, which is what you’re now familiar with as the Android OS. This story has been floating around in various tech areas. Here’s a podcast about it: https://corecursive.com/android-with-chet-haase/ https://corecursive.com/android-with-chet-haase/
      • jbverschoor 3y ago
        Exactly. I remember the alpha screenshots. Although not many seem to somehow
      • deleted 3y ago
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    • chem83 3y ago
      OP is just saying that before iPhone/iOS was announced in 2007, there was an effort to build Android, but it was something that resembled Blackberries. After the iPhone was announced, there was a big project reset, which shifted Android to what eventually got launched in 2008. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-google-had-to-start-over-on-android/282479/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-d...
      • ant6n 3y ago
        And in the xkcd household Android was used starting in 2009, and some years later iOS. Seems consistent with history.