more anti-Apple or freetard that a person may be, can not help but admit that Apple has changed the entire mobile phone market when it launched the iPhone in 2007. Just look at what they were smartphones before and after iGadget, and especially what happened with the BlackBerry, which insisted on devices with physical keyboards and format the motto that was a reference in corporate environments. Novelty company? She closed the third quarter with a loss of 4.4 billion dollars.
Unlike former RIM, Google felt the impact violently. When Live Steve Jobs said that Android, which was in development at the time of the iPhone launch was a stolen product – most likely by the fact that the company’s chairman Eric Schmidt was a member of the board of Apple and therefore had access to privileged information – and would do anything to destroy it. Now Chris DeSalvo, former engineer from Mountain View has revealed juicy details behind the scenes of Android on your book Dogfight:. How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
book, DeSalvo says explicitly that when Jobs pulled the iPhone from his pocket on January 9, 2007, the Android development team looked at what they were doing and in his words, “what we did looked like something out of 1990s “. Even Andy Rubin, the father of the system and project leader said at the time: “I think we will not release that phone”. Despite having many features that would bring it anyway, compared to the iPhone it was “ugly”, much closer to the BlackBerry with physical keyboard and no touch screen. In short, instantly dated. They knew that Jobs would present a smarphone and that he would be revolutionary, but not in their wildest dreams imagined something of that magnitude, DeSalvo says that “it was extremely obvious if you think about it.”
Long story short, Google was forced to take what they had done so far and throw in the trash, starting the operating system from scratch, running to adapt the best that the previous version had an interface with support for touch screen, having iOS-based and probably the bit that Schmidt knew ( ultimately fueling Jobs was not so crazy as to give the keys of the kingdom to someone he probably saw even before the launch of the iPhone as a competitor infiltrate , which ended up materializing ). This delayed the launch of Android in almost a year: the HTC Dream, the first device with the system just hit the market in October 2008 while the iPhone 3G, which was much more evolved than its predecessor was available three months ago <. / p>
aim at Microsoft and its Windows Mobile, Google ignored a storm that could come out of Cupertino and nearly paid the duck so. Today Android owns most of the market share of smartphones and both he and iOS copied one another blatantly, not that it prevents a certain consortium attempting to annihilate the system. But it would be interesting to play the lookout and try to imagine what would happen if things had been just a little different.
Source: Atlantic
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