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2011-06-09 , 14:55
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#3613
Originally Posted by gabby131 View Post
now i can once again prove that android started earlier than iOS. having this debate with friends until now
Well, it's not necessarily true that Android started earlier than iOS. Just that Android started sometime before the iOS release (I should have said purchased by Google in 2005 rather than started, android was founded as a company in 2003), which implies that the team wasn't exposed to iOS at Android's creation and was conceived by other influences.

Either way, Elop's quote is inaccurate. iOS didn't bring Android into being.

Additionally, Android is much more than the UI layer, or an OS running on ARM -- I know little about the iOS environment, but based on what I know of the exotic nature of Android, I'm betting that there are quite a few differences between them.
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