Re:We made something. We use it. We love it. Apple rejected it
by snowwrestler on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:20AM
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It's not bollocks; we now have Google engineers on record that they had to substantially rethink Android in the wake of the iPhone announcement.
> Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”
> On the day Jobs announced the iPhone, the director of the Android team, Andy Rubin, was six hundred miles away in Las Vegas, on his way to a meeting with one of the myriad handset makers and carriers that descend on the city for the Consumer Electronics Show. He reacted exactly as DeSalvo predicted. Rubin was so astonished by what Jobs was unveiling that, on his way to a meeting, he had his driver pull over so that he could finish watching the webcast.
> “Holy crap,” he said to one of his colleagues in the car. “I guess we’re not going to ship that phone.”
> Chris DeSalvo’s reaction to the iPhone was immediate and visceral. “As a consumer I was blown away. I wanted one immediately. But as a Google engineer, I thought ‘We’re going to have to start over.’”
> On the day Jobs announced the iPhone, the director of the Android team, Andy Rubin, was six hundred miles away in Las Vegas, on his way to a meeting with one of the myriad handset makers and carriers that descend on the city for the Consumer Electronics Show. He reacted exactly as DeSalvo predicted. Rubin was so astonished by what Jobs was unveiling that, on his way to a meeting, he had his driver pull over so that he could finish watching the webcast.
> “Holy crap,” he said to one of his colleagues in the car. “I guess we’re not going to ship that phone.”
http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-day-...
This is not one of those Apple vs Google fights; it's straight up well-sourced journalism.