Google Co-Founder Says Steve Jobs is Trying to Rewrite History

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Posted July 9, 2010 at 2:23pm by iClarified

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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Jay - July 11, 2010 at 1:41am

Well too damn bad. Apple pulled the trigger first. If Google was doing this way before Apple then they failed miserably by not releasing it sooner!

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Me - July 9, 2010 at 4:01pm

yes android was first, and yes google purchased it 2 years prior to iphone being announced. But iphone development had been in the works also during that time, and android development did NOT involve a touchscreen interface. It looked like the old Tmobile Dash or a blackberry. It resembled nothing that the iphone looked like at v1.0. check out the screenshots here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/a-visual-tour-of-androids-ui/ All steve is saying is that they copied the look and feel of iphone OS

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Wyzepro - July 10, 2010 at 12:10am

Wrong....what you describe is the hardware, which is not the OS android. From the beginning it was designed to run on multiple types of hardware. Touch screen included. Yes it looked nothing like the iPhone, a finished product, because it was a prototype. Just saying. Oh yeah! You just have to read the comments in the thread linked above. It reads very funny in hind site.

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CouldCareLess - July 9, 2010 at 3:46pm

I thought about it two years before the two years that Google thought of it... just never did anything about it. In fact, I'm thinking of something really cool right not... doubt I'll do anything about it though. Oh well, so what! Sheesh!

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Frank - July 9, 2010 at 2:48pm

Who care? If iPhone was introduced two years later, how long was it in development before it was introduced? Did you guys consider that?

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NeHoMaR - July 9, 2010 at 2:45pm

Simple. Apple and Google should join and make one single phone. There are enough money for both.

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Phil - July 9, 2010 at 3:41pm

I think there are laws against the joining of two juggernaut companies in the same space like that. BTW - I was working on a simple search engine that brought quick search results and organized them by relevance. It was called Snoogle... But I swear I was working on it.

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