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This article insinuates Schmidt have leaked the iPhone to Google. Poppycock. https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-android-founder-andy-rubin-big-arro
by chx 2y ago
This article insinuates Schmidt have leaked the iPhone to Google.
Poppycock.
https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-android-founder-andy-rubin-big-arrogant-f-2013-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-android-founde... if you believe Andy Rubin's recollection of events on January 2007 when Jobs announced the iPhone he had absolutely no idea.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-4... even in December 2007 the Android milestone build didn't have a finger friendly user interface, that'll only come in February 2008. The iPhone shipped 2007 summer.
Now whether the UI was stolen from the iPhone is a different matter and I do not want to enter that debate.