Google acquired the startup from Android Andy Ruby back in 2005. The company intended to launch the first phone based on this operating system at the end of 2007. But something happened then: the apple company presented el first iPhone in a brilliant exhibition of Steve Jobs where it became clear that the world of mobile phones was going to change drastically from that day on. So it was.
This was a serious blow to Google, which saw its phones become outdated before they even hit the market. According to a Google engineer, the company had to start from scratch after the introduction of the iPhone. This information is taken from a new book called Dogfight written by Fred vogelstein which describes the smartphone war based on conversations with Apple and Google employees.
Google engineers worked 60 to 80 hours a week for two years to create the first Android phone, which looked like a BlackBerry: a small screen and a physical keyboard. All of them, without exception, were amazed at how advanced the iPhone was when they first saw it.
The reaction of Chris DeSalvo to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was stunned, I wanted one immediately, but as a Google engineer I thought we were going to have to start all over again. What we had been doing up to now suddenly seemed to us to be something of the 90 years. It's one of those things you realize when you see them. "
After this, the entire Android team went to work to reconfigure their goals and make a device that was capable of living up to the iPhone under the code name »Dream». This sudden "inspiration" from Google did not go unnoticed at Apple, drawing Jobs ire and leading to a long war between the two companies that lasts to this day, with an infinity of demands between the two.
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there is origin !! And why the fansdroids are wrong and the fans and lovers of IOS are.
And what does it matter who is right? Being an iOS fan I can see how much the market and iOS itself have gained thanks to the competition (including Windows Phone and Android).
I am not a fan of the iPhone but I am a fan of the Macs, and there is no doubt that without the iPhone we would still continue with physical keyboards, the BlackBerry would continue to cost 10 pesos and we would be obsolete 13 mpx cameras with the image embedded in a small square screen and underneath an invasive keyboard. An example of this are the bb and nokias from 2011-2012 who, despite the fact that there were already more androids, decided to keep the design and were its ruins.