• Lightning66@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah Android might have copied IOS. But why not. Android would have been developed any way sooner or later. It is based on Linux. And that is open sourced.

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      1 year ago

      It only took a year for Android to be released after iOS. How long has it taken China to come up with a competing operating system? I’m pretty sure Google was working somewhat in parallel to Apple.

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      1 year ago

      In many way iOS had copied android and sometimes they did it late (multitasking, …)

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      1 year ago

      If I remember correctly, android was already under development, but huge changes were made after the iPhone came out.

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        Android was close to being released, but it was going to be much more like a BlackBerry, with a keyboard focus. They delayed the release to retool it somewhat with more of a touch focus.

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          1 year ago

          “somewhat” is doing a lot of work here. I mean, they didn’t re-write the kernel, but you can google example of the UI pre and post iPhone announcement.

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      1 year ago

      Just about every invention is obvious in hindsight. Take a look at what Android looked like pre-iPhone announcement and then post.