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Well I seem to remember there was a time beating iOS as a whole was hard to believe, and some still think that's true for tablets, even though Android already h
by devx 13y ago
Well I seem to remember there was a time beating iOS as a whole was hard to believe, and some still think that's true for tablets, even though Android already has more market share in tablets (each quarter, not yet in total userbase), and it's only a matter of time until it more or less replicates the success in smartphones. This would've happened sooner, if Google's employees weren't so dense to think that they don't have to do anything to push Android tablets, and thinking that devs only need to let their phone apps scale to tablets, which in hindsight I'm sure they also realize what a stupid statement that was at the time.
- czr80 13y agoWhen? iOS never had the dominant share (globally) - that passed from Symbian to Android.
- r00fus 13y agoI don't remember such a thing. If it was, it was brief. For the longest time, smartphones ran Symbian, PalmOS, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile (order varied by year). Android phones largely took marketshare from the above. The original 2006 prototype looked largely like one of the devices above (mainly the blackberry) [1]. It was only after the iPhone that Android pivoted hard towards away from embedded keyboards. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/254539/original_android_prototype_revealed_during_google_oracle_trial.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/254539/original_android_proto...