Saturday, December 21, 2013

Google had to 'start over' Android after iPhone launch in 2007

Android team to start over, a new book has reportedly revealed. 

Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution by Fred Vogelstein, has revealed that Apple's first iPhone changed smartphones forever and Google was one of the first to realize how important the phone was

According to Mashable, Google engineer Chris DeSalvo said that as soon as Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone to the world, he knew the Android team would need to 'start over'. 

The book described that for the six months before the iPhone release, DeSalvo, Android chief Andy Rubin and the rest of the Android team had been working on the platforms prototype phone for a launch that was planned for the end of 2007. 

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