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If you want to be picky about that sort of thing Google bought Android, they didn't invent it.

eloisant 14y ago
They probably bought it, but it's Google who brought Android to the state it is today. Just look how Android was when the G1 launched - and that's 2 years after Google acquired them.
runjake 14y ago
If you really want to be picky about that sort of thing, Android wasn't even a pseudo-Blackberry OS-looking, D-Pad-controlled OS when Google bought it. In other words, anything notable about Android today was created at Google, from the kernel up to the UI to the frameworks to all the little features all these Android "switchers" are raving about.
- Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
  The things that make Siri as useful as it is (which for the record IHMO is not very) is tight integration with iOS contacts, calendars and text messages for instance - all things not in the product when Apple bought it and all things which may ultimately enable the sort of integrated experiences people are saying are great with Google Now. Seriously, when Apple bought it Siri was interesting and pretty cool, but it's a different beast now. The parallel between it and original Android is fair - they're both evolved versions of something which was acquired.
  - runjake 14y ago
    That may be, but don't use a myth to posit your position. The Android that Google acquired is a grain of sand of what it is today. Anything remotely notable or worthwhile out of Android came out of Google. FWIW, Siri is great and I currently use an iPhone.
    - Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
      Except perhaps the most important thing - the idea? Possibly worth looking too at what I was originally doing - refuting the idea that Android was a major Google innovation where Siri was merely an acquisition. Even if you say that Google have reworked Android to the extent that it's essentially new, the same is largely true of Siri if you look what it was when Apple bought it (small scale, movie tickets and restaurant bookings). The only difference is one is three years on, the other is ten years on.
      - runjake 14y ago
        What idea? Android? Android was essentially an unknown brand when Google bought it. It certainly wasn't a technology (or at least a technology that has any similarity to Android today).
        Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
        It was a mobile operating system. That seems pretty similar to me.

They probably bought it, but it's Google who brought Android to the state it is today. Just look how Android was when the G1 launched - and that's 2 years after Google acquired them.

runjake 14y ago

If you really want to be picky about that sort of thing, Android wasn't even a pseudo-Blackberry OS-looking, D-Pad-controlled OS when Google bought it. In other words, anything notable about Android today was created at Google, from the kernel up to the UI to the frameworks to all the little features all these Android "switchers" are raving about.

Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
The things that make Siri as useful as it is (which for the record IHMO is not very) is tight integration with iOS contacts, calendars and text messages for instance - all things not in the product when Apple bought it and all things which may ultimately enable the sort of integrated experiences people are saying are great with Google Now. Seriously, when Apple bought it Siri was interesting and pretty cool, but it's a different beast now. The parallel between it and original Android is fair - they're both evolved versions of something which was acquired.
- runjake 14y ago
  That may be, but don't use a myth to posit your position. The Android that Google acquired is a grain of sand of what it is today. Anything remotely notable or worthwhile out of Android came out of Google. FWIW, Siri is great and I currently use an iPhone.
  - Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
    Except perhaps the most important thing - the idea? Possibly worth looking too at what I was originally doing - refuting the idea that Android was a major Google innovation where Siri was merely an acquisition. Even if you say that Google have reworked Android to the extent that it's essentially new, the same is largely true of Siri if you look what it was when Apple bought it (small scale, movie tickets and restaurant bookings). The only difference is one is three years on, the other is ten years on.
    - runjake 14y ago
      What idea? Android? Android was essentially an unknown brand when Google bought it. It certainly wasn't a technology (or at least a technology that has any similarity to Android today).
      - Tyrannosaurs 14y ago
        It was a mobile operating system. That seems pretty similar to me.