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To: slacker711 who wrote (168432)4/15/2014 1:35:27 AM
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I found the article I referred to, it is dated November 13 2013 and found on 9to5mac.com and related to the book "Dogfight" by Fred Vogelstein.

9to5mac.com

Here is a quote from the article:

When Apple launched the iPhone, Rubin recognized that his grand Android plan would have to be tossed out. In fact, Rubin watched the webcast from the back of a cab in Las Vegas even making the driver pull over so he could watch the entire presentation. According to the book, Rubin said: “Holy crap, I guess we’re not going to launch that phone.”

Ethan Beard, an early Android development executive told the author that “We knew that Apple was going to announce a phone. Everyone knew that. We just didn’t think it would be that good.” An unnamed Android engineer even went as far as to say their work on Android looked awful when compared to the iPhone: “What we had looked so … nineties.”

It looks like this is an admission that after the January 2007 Apple announcement, Android became strongly influenced by the iPhone and iOS.
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