Android is alive only thanks to iOS
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
It is known that after the iPhone release in 2007 other companies flinch from knowing how much smart phone from Apple ahead of their own products. According to the new Google documents, opened in new court between technology giants, initially on Android devices created as completely unpretentious and had to work in Java.
Initially, Google is going to release a very simple smartphone with a relatively large at the time screen and full qwerty keyboard. For these purposes, the company acquired the company Danger and Android, Apple started in 2005, Andrew Rubin, the former employee.
Despite its mediocrity, the product was developed in secrecy. At that time, were very popular smartphones on Windows Mobile and Google started to create an operating system for their devices. According to the documents, no hint of a touch screen was not. Only a physical keyboard. We insisted on that Motorola and Samsung.
Google had planned to make Android a kind of Linux in the mobile phone world. The system had to be compatible with Java. By the way, when the foundations were laid by the famous widgets. They were supposed to be displayed on the screen, the current weather, currency rates, equity or other interesting information to users.
In 2007, Steve Jobs called WAP internet "childish", but before the emergence of iPhone Android only supports it.
By the way, in an interview, Steve said that they were working on iPhone for 2.5 years. Creating a revolutionary smartphone began six months before Google bought Android, even though they already had some of their own achievements.
Then, the search giant's employees recognized the superiority of smartphones from Apple. He excelled in the development of everything from the exterior to the intuitive interface. After that, it was decided to alter Android from scratch.
"We decided to do the smart phone as easy to use as the Mac 20 years ago"
Steve Jobs on iPhone presentation
At the same time one of the developers of Android Chris DeSalvo said, "as a consumer, I immediately wanted to this smartphone, but as an engineer saw something that we should strive." Around the same thoughts and the rest of the team visited, including Android Andrew Rubin creator.
After such a move with the Apple side, the Google threw all their efforts to change the operating system, similar to the iPhone OS, and not a copy of the BlackBerry. It turns out that in 2007 alone, Android has become developed under the touch screen.
Introduced in October 2008, the HTC Dream / G1 was already working on Android, but the system was not ready so that it did not even have support for multitouch gestures. They appeared only a year later in the update 2.0.
via AppleInsider