Google purchased Android in 2005 and Rubin and his team began working on it in 2006. The beta version of it was released in 2007 a few months after the iPhone was released. Apple got their phone out first but Android had already started its beginnings years before. So you fail.
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Why doesn't apple reveil their next iphone now?
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Google purchased Android in 2005 and Rubin and his team began working on it in 2006. The beta version of it was released in 2007 a few months after the iPhone was released. Apple got their phone out first but Android had already started its beginnings years before. So you fail.
Do u really think that apple wasn't working on iPhone and iOS before '07? Apple released iOS in 07 and the HTC dream, I believe was the first phone with Android 1.0 in 2008. A whole YEAR later. But who cares about dates anyway it was Apple that set a new bar with iPhone and iOS and the cell phone world as we knew it changed forever.
So I'll say it again...if it wasn't for apple and iPhone, you wouldn't have ur cheap android device the way it is today.
We all fail? You must be trolling or I just feel sorry for you...
You think the iPhone just magically appeared in 2007 with no prior thought or research done? Thank you for making my day, I never knew it was possible for an individual to be so... (I'll stop myself here before I say words that may hurt your feelings). Keep on drinking that magically Android juice.
Then allow people to preorder it for 3-4 months, Then release to the public it in october...
So many games, phones, & other technology companys do it al the time with great success
Why don't they just announce all future road plans for the next decade? They might as well start telling us what the plan for the iPhone 6-15 are at this point... Jk
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No cause the iPhone is magical. R&D to fully developed product only took 6 days. A garden gnome that used to live on the
lawn told me. Jk. All I am saying is Apple didn't invent the smartphone, so stop being such a fanboy and acting like they did and how we would still be in the dark ages playing snake on our flip phones without Apple. Its clear if you look at the timelines that Google started working on Android around the same time Apple was coming up with the iPhone.
How do you know Apple started working on the iPhone around the same time as Google? Are you a secret spy for both companies, and you know exactly when they both thought "hey let's make a phone that can do much more than a normal phone".
You're just guessing and making yourself look quite stupid, to be frank.
Please tell me where I stated Apple invented the smartphone. I'd like a quote of that please. In my previous post I was just posting on behalf of your ignorance and how you think you know everything. When you don't.
I'd also like to know how your relationship with Steve Jobs was. Was he a good friend to you? (I think your relationship should have been in his biography book) Since you know exactly when he decided a phone was going to be his next invention. Or when he first originally thought about making one.
LOL what? Wow man. The first smartphone with a touchscreen was released in 1993, 14 years before the iPhone! I suggest you read up a bit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone