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No, open sourcing it had been the plan from the start. I was there, I was at the internal meetings where these plans were announced to employees. The main impa
by mike_hearn 3mo ago
No, open sourcing it had been the plan from the start. I was there, I was at the internal meetings where these plans were announced to employees.
The main impact iPhone had on Android was delaying it to redo the UI to make it nicer. Not trivial changes but not fundamental business strategy changes either.
First Android releases weren't bad at all. I'd say the UI was more 'classic' feeling and not as nicely animated than the first iPhone, but the first Android actually had far more features. And some critical ones too, like you could actually write apps for it.
- darkwater 3mo ago> First Android releases weren't bad at all. I'd say the UI was more 'classic' Maybe in your test labs, but on real HW it was sluggish, laggy and barely usable. Source: I owned the original Samsung Galaxy and tried some friend's HTC Magic and they were horrible. The first real good Android phone, perf wise, was IME the Galaxy S II.
- mike_hearn 3mo agoI owned an HTC G1 and was happy enough with it. Smartphones are judged on far more than just UI latency.
- darkwater 3mo agoThat's why I owned Android phones ever since, but know with Google closing the system, it's losing what made it special.
- microtonal 3mo agoNo, open sourcing it had been the plan from the start. I was there, I was at the internal meetings where these plans were announced to employees. Thank you for correcting me! Very interesting to hear.