Android development "started from scratch" after the iPhone ... - TeK.sapo

are statements that will give much to talk among fans of Android and Apple’s iOS. Chris DeSalvo, a member of the company that developed the Android even before this belong to Google, confessed that the launch of the iPhone has had a positive and negative impact on the work that had been developing. On the one hand recognized the victory of Apple technology and the benefits it would bring to the world. On the other noticed that the Android operating system would be required to start from scratch.

“As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted a [iPhone] immediately. But as an engineer at Google I thought ‘We’ll have to start from scratch ‘, “said Chris DeSalvo to The Atlantic, the purpose of the presentation of Apple’s smartphone.

As recalled to The Verge, the first versions of Android and their mobile phones were closer to BlackBerry. “What we had suddenly seemed so .. 90.’s Those things that are obvious when you see them.”

The main responsibility for the Android in 2007, Andy Rubin, also had a reaction of awe and chill with the presentation of the iPhone: “Caramba [Holy Crap] Looks like we no longer throw that phone.”. Rubin have even asked the driver to pull over his car so he could see the rest of the presentation of Apple’s smartphone.

But when Android was in its early stages of development or Apple was the biggest concern of Google. Microsoft was seen as the number one rival in the mobile area because the Windows CE platform for mobile phones was gaining users.

Trumps Android and development focus, writes The Atlantic, eventually the ecosystem Google services – such as Maps, Gmail and YouTube -., the search tools and the fact that the company had created a version of the operating system for all mobile phones

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