Adoption of Apple that the launch of the iPhone changed everything in the mobile industry, has received further confirmation. One of the original developers of Android Chris DeSalvo (Chris DeSalvo), worked on mobile OS with Andy Rubin (Andy Rubin) in Danger before joining Google, said that the announcement of iPhone made the whole team understand the need to begin work on a new platform.
Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone (Reuters)
Android in 2007 for two years was in the process of development – the operating system Google has expressed view on the future of mobile devices and was aimed at confrontation with Microsoft. However, despite all the work done, the company realized that the vector of development need to change dramatically – the first Android-prototypes project Sooner rather resembled fastener apparatuses BlackBerry – and it was decided to create a similar iPhone interface built around touch input.
Mr. DeSalvo recalls his reaction to the iPhone so: «As a consumer, I was shocked. I immediately wanted to buy myself a phone. But as an engineer Google I thought, “We have to start all over again” ». to the Google team it was a hit. «Our project immediately began to look just … in the spirit of the nineties, – added Chris DeSalvo. – This is one of those times when everything becomes clear when one glance ».
One of the earliest prototypes of Android – Google Sooner (blog.steventroughtonsmith.com)
iPhone Android team leader Andy Rubin was in Las Vegas – he was in a hurry to meet with one of the many manufacturers of mobile devices and operators during the Consumer Electronics Show Consumer Electronics Show. He was so shocked by the apparatus shown Apple, told the driver to stop at the roadside to carefully watch the webcast. Then he told his colleagues in the car, it is unlikely that Google will bring to market your phone (it was a project Sooner). One of the early leaders of the business strategy Android Ethan Beard (Ethan Beard) recalls: «We knew that Apple is going to introduce the phone. Everyone knew it. We just did not think it would be so good ».
Prototypes Sooner, not having a touch screen, something significantly superior to iPhone: the company relied on the software, offering an open operating system with full-fledged browser, the work of all web applications like Google Search, Maps, YouTube. OS was multitasking, did not require binding to the PC and provided shop online applications. iPhone, by comparison, require regular connection to iTunes, could not perform more than one application at the same time and at first did not have an online store.
One of the earliest prototypes of Android – Google Sooner (blog.steventroughtonsmith.com)
But the iPhone was not only looks very attractive machine, he used the screen and software to create an entirely new way of interacting with the phone – the way that Android developers thought impossible or too risky. iPhone thanks to a new multi-sensory interface designed for control of the fingers instead of a special pen, got rid of most of the hardware buttons, replacing them with software on the big screen, and built-in accelerometer to tune the display when working in portrait or landscape modes.
iPhone had a lot of shortcomings – Mr. Rubin and a team of Android, like many others, believed that difficult for users to type text without tactile feedback or hardware keyboard. Therefore, the first Android-powered device T-Mobile G1 from HTC, which came nearly two years after the iPhone, got a physical keyboard, but she was already retractable, and the main way to interact with your phone has become a touch screen. Optionally, you can read our review of the first phone Google Android, as well as material to the 5th anniversary of Android.
first smartphone based on Android, HTC Dream (in the United States – T-Mobile G1), was released in October 2008
Since 2007 was a long time for that iOS and Android together transformed the entire mobile industry, and the initial sample for Android, BlackBerry smartphones with hardware keyboards, lost its meaning. In 2007, a dramatic change of course development was certainly a very painful decision, but history has proven the selection Google.
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