Android predates iPhone says Google Chairman
Shortly before his death, Steve Jobs accused Google of ripping off the iPhone with its Android mobile operating system.
“I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” he told biographer Walter Isaacson.
“I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,” Jobs went on.
Google has remained mum on this quote until yesterday, when Chairman Eric Schmidt dismissed by stating that Android predates the iPhone.
“As a general comment, I think most people would agree that Google is a great innovator and I would also point out that the Android effort started before the iPhone effort,” said Schmidt.
Android was founded in 2003, and was purchased by Google in 2005. The first iPhone only debuted in 2007, though there is no guarantee that Apple didn’t begin work on the iPhone many years earlier.
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