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Google to Launch Siri Rival Soon?
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Ok, I misunderstood your post, but I love that video because Android fans will argue the truth when it's right there in front of them, presented by Google itself.
How about this one:
Me: "Majel, I'm looking for a new smartphone"
Majel: "There are 120 Android phones available. I have sorted them by price. However, Rogers is having a 50% off promotion. Would you like to hear more?"
I have no opinion on the following:
Hugo Barra, when asked about copying iOS:
"When given detail about them and asked whether he would say that any elements in the latest version of Android, such as the two-line preview of emails in the Gmail app (found in Apple's iPhone email program since 2007), or the "quick response" buttons at the bottom of the email app (almost identical in order and purpose to those in Apple's iPhone email program), or the provision of a shortcut to the camera from the phone's lock screen (first seen in Windows Phone 7 in October 2010 iOS 5 previews in June), or the extra features added to the Notifications bar in Android were copying iOS, he responded: "I'm not going to get into this.""
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Still states nothing on what Android copied from iOS. Gmail is an App, it's not the OS itself.
That's fine and dandy but we're talking about the specific implementation of getting recent notifications from a variety of apps in a drop-down list from the top of the screen. That's what Android fans are so eager to accuse Apple of stealing, but your video doesn't show that specifically. Apple apparently had something very close to that feature in early iPhones despite the fact that it wasn't available to users without jail-breaking. Seems more likely to me that the concept found its way into Android via Eric Schmidt's proximity to Apple at that time.
i find it interesting that Android has something Siri like for years and Apple replicates it and adds a few upgrades and it is now a miraculous invention LOL
like the pull down task bar Android has had since 1.0
to each his own. i own an iPhone 2,3G,3Gs, and 4 and many Androids and they both have their good and bad sides.
Apple didnt invent the smartphone and neither did Android but they are both great devices today.
i dont care which one i am using they can both keep Siri. i dont like my phone talking back to me
It's exactly what I thought, how the Fanboys were going to celebrate or something, forgetting that Google had something before Siri. This would only drive Apple to improve on it. It's not even a feature worth all of the hype. Seems to me that it was purely used for hype and push more iPhone.
The video only serves to drive a few points home.
a) One could argue that Google had better notifications first from that video, and I wouldn't disagree.
b) One could argue that Google thought imitating a Blackberry was the way to go, until they saw how iOS was doing and completely revamped... and I wouldn't disagree.
For every person who says, "There's only so many ways to make the Android OS look and act," or, "There are only so many ways to make a tablet," my only rebuttal is: Where were they before Apple did it?
Reading is comprehension. I can't help you with that.
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In that light, let's see the first Google phone, I believe November 2007:
Looks like the a a nightmare a Blackberry would have.
I wonder what happened to that design?
You're forgetting the touch only prototype from the same date
HTC, Motorla and Samsung have models like that TODAY.
Ok. However your believes are of no concern. The link I posted was of their prototype, which is also in the youtube video. If you have a link to a touchscreen only in 2007 post it.
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Yes, it's a possibility. Did it come out b4 or after the first iPhone?
Stop spreading misinformation please. Android is not hardware, its software. That picture is of a phone, with buttons, with the Android OS installed on it. How does that indicate that they first copied Blackberry, and then switched to copying Apple? If you do some analytical thinking, you'll see that Android had docked software buttons, indicating that Android was meant to be an OS on phones with no physical buttons.
Not silly by any means, I have my Droid and Iphone 4S on my desk.....the Android version is archaic by comparison.....ask anyone.
I was not alluding anything in the picture about android. Did I mention android? Reading is comprehension.
It's really hard to find it. I remember someone posted it on the forums, but I lost it then.
EDIT: Nvm, I found it. It's in the same video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1FJHYqE0RDg#t=193s
Came at the same time that the one in the picture you have posted. You are the one saying that the first device looked like that and this is false, they looked like that and touch only.
To be clear, I have zero interest in defending whether it was Apple who originated the idea or not and if I'm wrong about who created it, I don't care one way or the other. What I'm responding to is the claim that Google originated the notification center implementation and that Apple stole it from them. What my link shows is that the concept pre-dated Google's implementation in Android (regardless of who created it.) Saying Apple stole the idea from Google is inaccurate. Google and Apple took an idea that was floating around.
REading is comprehension? Really are you claiming that you doesn't have said anything about Android posting a Google prototype with Android in it?
First I said prototype, second you admit the same: "they looked like that and touch"
This is false
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No, I have said that YOU forgot that this form factor was not the only form factor SINCE the beginning