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2011-06-09 , 14:16
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Here we go again...

Elop has just made a quote:


http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/09/c...eated-android/

Apple created Android, or at least created the conditions necessary for Android to come into being

This is an ignorant assertion. Android was a project started in 2005, 2 years before the iPhone (or iOS) would surface. Additionally, the Adobe Flash powered LG Prada was on the scene before the iPhone, which suggests that touch-screen mobile OSs were (at the very least) visions held by more than one group.

My second point is this: Why do people insist that the UI is the OS? The OS is the software layer that interacts with the underlying hardware. The UI is an interface for users, they really are different things. This perturbing of the definition baffles me.

If I were on the board of Nokia, I would be quite worried that my CEO is demonstrating an incredibly poor knowledge of the industry that he's trying to dominate.

As an aside: The 'Apple invented it' chant is a very strange social phenomena, and would be worthy of psychological study.
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