{"id":37877,"date":"2011-11-09T10:19:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T08:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=37877"},"modified":"2011-11-09T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T08:21:35","slug":"android-predates-iphone-says-google-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/37877-android-predates-iphone-says-google-chairman.html","title":{"rendered":"Android predates iPhone says Google Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before his death, <a title=\"Steve Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/340669-Steve-Jobs\">Steve Jobs<\/a> accused <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> of ripping off the iPhone with its <a title=\"Android Mobile Oerating System\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> mobile operating system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will spend every penny of <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple\u2019s<\/a> $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,\u201d he told biographer Walter Isaacson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to destroy Android, because it\u2019s a stolen product. I\u2019m willing to go thermonuclear war on this,\u201d Jobs went on.<\/p>\n<p>Google has remained mum on this quote until yesterday, when Chairman <a title=\"Eric Schmidt\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/360166-Eric-Schmidt\">Eric Schmidt<\/a> dismissed by stating that Android predates the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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,\u201d said Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t begin work on the iPhone many years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"All Things D\" href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111108\/google-ceo-android-pre-dated-iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things D<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schmidt has dismissed claims that Android copied the iPhone, noting that Android predates the iPhone effort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,605,1627,167,609],"class_list":["post-37877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-eric-schmidt","tag-google","tag-steve-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37883,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37877\/revisions\/37883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}