Google co-founder Larry Page is accusing Steve Jobs of trying to rewrite Android and iPhone history.
According to Fortune, Page notes that Google had been working on Android long before the iPhone was introduced.
"We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after [the iPhone was introduced] is not really reasonable."
Fortune goes on to outline a timeline of Android and Apple events which has Google purchasing Android two years before the iPhone was introduced and a year before Eric Schmidt was elected to the Apple board.
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According to Fortune, Page notes that Google had been working on Android long before the iPhone was introduced.
"We had been working on Android a very long time, with the notion of producing phones that are Internet enabled and have good browsers and all that because that did not exist in the marketplace. I think that characterization of us entering after [the iPhone was introduced] is not really reasonable."
Fortune goes on to outline a timeline of Android and Apple events which has Google purchasing Android two years before the iPhone was introduced and a year before Eric Schmidt was elected to the Apple board.
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