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Re:John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair by isleyaardvark on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:06AM (#1435308)
When it first came out it could've. RIM didn't think they had a second-rate user experience, don't people remember all the talk about physical keyboards?

As far as I can tell, the first touchscreen Android phone came out in late 2009 (HTC Magic, according to this: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/google-android-htc-touch,news-34...) That's a full two years after the release of the iPhone. It took time for Google to start competing on the iPhone's turf, and that's why the relationship changed.

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Re:John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair by robin_reala on Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:21AM (#1435330)
That was the first touch-only Android device (although it came out in July), but the G1 had a touch screen and that came out in Oct 2008.
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