Originally Posted by zapod:
“Zack, please, the first Android phone, to buy, in the shops was the G1 aka HTC Dream, first available 22 October 2008.
iPhone available to buy June 29 2007. Source: Wikipedia.
That's a full 15 months earlier. 15 months. By the time Google had got their act together, Apple had already released the 2nd iteration of iPhone, the 3G.
Android (for touch) was totally a reaction to the iPhone and it took Google all that time to re-engineer Android for touch and come up with what was at best a mediocre device notable only for being the first smartphone to offer Android. And that chin.
As it was, I had to wait for my then feature phone contract to expire before getting what was then the new(ish) HTC G2. By that time, of course, other manufacturers were coming on board with their takes on what constituted a great Android phone. And that G2 ended up being buggy rubbish BTW.”
“Zack, please, the first Android phone, to buy, in the shops was the G1 aka HTC Dream, first available 22 October 2008.
iPhone available to buy June 29 2007. Source: Wikipedia.
That's a full 15 months earlier. 15 months. By the time Google had got their act together, Apple had already released the 2nd iteration of iPhone, the 3G.
Android (for touch) was totally a reaction to the iPhone and it took Google all that time to re-engineer Android for touch and come up with what was at best a mediocre device notable only for being the first smartphone to offer Android. And that chin.

As it was, I had to wait for my then feature phone contract to expire before getting what was then the new(ish) HTC G2. By that time, of course, other manufacturers were coming on board with their takes on what constituted a great Android phone. And that G2 ended up being buggy rubbish BTW.”
Google debuted Android in November 2007, with a prototype 3G touch device (before the iPhone 3G was released
), so no, they did not "re-engineer" Android at all. Here's the original video, posted in November 2007, it had been in development for quite some time by then. The TMobile G1 came a year later because Google had to get people on board with Android before anything could happen. They formed the Open Handset Alliance in November 2007 following Android's debut and worked closely with HTC to create the first Android device. Android as a touch operating system was already in existence the same year Apple debuted the iPhone, so they absolutely did not take 15 months to "catch up" as it were.
The two OSs were very much being worked on in parallel. The interesting thing is how far Android has come in such a short time. After the success of the Motorola Droid and later the Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire, it only took Android around a year to begin surpassing iOS.




..... little bit pricey still at the moment tho