Wired reporter Fred Vogelstein ” hand to hand : as Apple and Google launched the war and started a revolution” sheds light on previously unknown aspects of the confrontation between the two IT- giants. In particular , the journalist said that after the iPhone Internet company completely revised its plans for the operating system Android.
When Apple introduced in 2007 the first iPhone, Google in full swing full swing work on the platform Android, the search giant bought in 2005 for $50 million with a staff of developers. OS development unit headed by Andy Rubin, who is considered the ” father” of the mobile OS .
According to Fred Vogelstein , after the presentation of iPhone Google executives was suppressed. Android, which they regarded as the most advanced platform for mobile devices, with the debut of Apple’s smartphone touch at one point become obsolete.
” As a regular user , I was shocked. I immediately wanted to iPhone. But as a developer Google I thought “We have to start all over again .” At one point that we did was look terribly outdated , “- said Google programmer Chris DeSalvo .
In Google knew that Apple is preparing its own phone, but could not imagine that he will so advanced . Corporations had to postpone the release of the first phone on Android, because at the time of the release of iPhone platform with “green robot” although it was almost ready , but looked outdated .
Android had to be further developed, the result was the HTC G1 – the first smartphone based on the new OS. Reactions to Steve Jobs is well known. Mobile Operating System Google literally brought him out of himself – he believed that the development of a competitor stole Apple.
Jobs made sure that in the ” green robot ” was not a number of features that originally appeared in the first iPhone. It is because of its requirements from the Android initially lacked multitasking gestures , ” zoom “, ” pinch” and some other functions .
