“Remember back in the day when Apple and Google were all chummy? Back when the original iPhone was released in 2007, and Google wasn’t in the smartphone business? That all changed once Google betrayed Apple’s trust and launched the Android operating system, and ever since then Google has held the stance that they never copied the iPhone,” Buster Heine reports for Cult of Mac. “It’s hard to prove that a company wasn’t thinking about something, but newly released designs of Google’s original concept phone from 2006 show that Google wasn’t even considering the creation of a touchscreen smartphone back when the iPhone was unveiled, so they stole Apple’s designs instead once they saw them.”
“Google went to the carriers with drawings of their concept phone in an effort to increase the use of Google’s mobile services in exchange for providing carriers with ‘low acquisition cost, high-end data customers,'” Heine reports. “Considering it was a phone in 2006, the Google Concept Phone looks great. I would have taken it over the Nokia 3100 I was rocking in the Philippines at that time, but it looks a lot like a Blackberry, and nothing like an iPhone.”
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Chris Ziegler reports for The Verge, “At that time, touchscreen support wasn’t a requirement — in fact, the baseline specs required two soft menu keys, indicating that touchscreens weren’t really in the plan at all.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Bespectacled Mole.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “John” for the heads up.]
Mole? Rat is much more fitting
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Mole. Thief. Sleezebag. Backstabber. Liar.
^ This.
and Scum of the Earth. Evil bast*rd. Villain. Wh*re.
All this and more. Google should die.
Snich. BackStabber. Rat.
Android just makes people want the iPhone more. People always want better and the iPhone is hands down the best.
Thanks for providing ammunition for Apple’s legal howitzer, Google. I’m sure they’ll keep it in their back pocket for a rainy day.
The two things not to believe Google stoled the iPhone is Google’s denial and stupidity.
And here we see an example of what appears when proof reading is skipped.
Signed, The Grammer Police.
“Grammer”? Do you mean grammar? Get yourself back to the academy, cadet!
This name calling is an insult to all rats, moles, and scum in general.
“It wasn’t until October of 2008 that the G1 hit shelves.”
The G1 never appeared on any shelf – it was sold online.
“Google betrayed Apple’s trust and launched the Android operating system” and so did – SlamDung also betrayed Apple’s trust. Android needs to be obliterated
It would be interesting to know what the mole was privy to as an Apple board member before he was released from that position! Would that not be enough to linch him.
That paragraph says that before Google copied iPhone, Google copied Blackberry. I think they consider any technology out there free for the taking. Java being another example. That “open”, “free” mantra of theirs continues to echo down the tunnels of their soullessness.
Companies besides Google: their technology is open and free.
Google itself is proprietary and secret.
Google is rapidly becoming one of my least respected companies on earth.
Body language says it all!
Hmm will Apple subpoena this evidence as part of Apple’s trade dress litigation…. Perhaps they will… they SHOULD NOW!!
Schmidt may be ethically challenged, among other handicaps, but part of the blame must be placed on Jobs for picking such a talentless hack to be on his board in the first place.
I like to show Droid Dweebs this little overview of Google’s pre-iPhone Android:
http://www.engadget.com/photos/a-visual-tour-of-androids-ui/#484250
They were copying BlackBerry at the time, apparently.
Apple tech: Blatantly ripped off by Google.
But let’s also give credit to that other, at the time, great creative inventor: PALM (with Handspring). The Palm Treo was the first great Smartphone. The Palm PDAs were the touch pioneers (after the Newton of course) that set the standard still evident in Smartphones today.
IOW: Palm Tech: Ripped off by Google. The 5 button setup on the ‘After iPhone’ Google model is Palm’s concept.
And technically, Apple’s ‘Home Button’ is derived from Palm. Obviously, Google couldn’t give up the ‘Home Button’ idea either as it survived into the Google Nexus phone, during its brief public existence.
The sad thing is that Google didn’t even need to launch Android.
They had the tie in with Apple/iPhone from day 1.