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Android was developed to kill Windows Phone, not the iPhone
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kdarling
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Yep, the original idea was to do a camera OS, but interest was too low.
So a few months later they switched to doing a smartphone OS, and within a year they were bought by Google for $50 million.
At that same moment in mid 2005 when they were bought, coincidentally Apple was experimenting with an iPod based phone.