Android Started Before iPhone: How True is That? | Linux Today

Android Started Before iPhone: How True is That?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 29, 2011

[ Thanks to kiterunner for this link.
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“Steve Jobs claimed that Android was a rip-off of Apple’s iOS
and that he will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the
bank, to right this wrong, to destroy Android. This created an
uproar. In an interview with Reuters, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of
Google, said that all these allegations are baseless and that
Android project started well before the iPhone effort. Let’s find
out how true a statement that is.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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