Android OS: Did Google Copy the iPhone?

Derek Wu on Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:21AM

Google co-founder Larry Page accuses Steve Jobs of “rewriting history” when the Apple CEO says that Google followed Apple into the smartphone market. Page insists that Google had been developing phones long before Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007. Although Google did buy out a small firm called Android a few years prior to the 1st generation iPhone launch, early prototypes of Android shown in late 2007 were reminiscent of BlackBerrys.

Moreover, Apple has been working on the iPhone since 2004, which predates Google’s acquisition of Android. As you can see, the first Android concept was radically changed, and the eventual first smartphone running Google’s OS, the G1, took more than a few cues from the iPhone. History speaks for itself. Neither Page nor Jobs, as powerful and wealthy as they are, can rewrite it.

I have problems and issues with the iPhone and iOS, but it revolutionized smartphones, and any objective person can give credit where it is due.

Source: Reuters.

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Tags: Android, Android OS, Blackberry, copy, g1, Google, google-android-nav, htc dream, imitation, Innovation, ios, iOS 4, iPhone, iphone 2g, larry page, RIM, smartphone, steve jobs, t-mobile g1

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07/11/10 1:18 am

but in the trend for the look of smartphones - i would guess it kinda just happened
since it is just a really likable look

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07/10/10 11:30 pm

i think it is not copy
they look totally different
and i believe each of them are independent

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