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While everyone is gushing about the iPhone's ten years of existence, an article from CNN's Money blog takes its accomplishment down a peg. Launching in 2008, Google's partnership with HTC helped produce what the world has come to know as the HTC Dream (first released as the T-Mobile G1 in the US). Running off the its mobile operating system, Android, it still maintained a BlackBerry-like slide out keyboard. It ran on a 528 Mhz Qualcomm chip, 192 MB of RAM with 256 MB of internal storage and even a 16 GB expandable Micro SD slot; making it still have more possible storage space than the current iPhones.
"Google and Apple were working on developing the smartphone very much at the same time," says Fred Vogelstein, author of Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
Then Jobs unveiled a radically different device on stage in January 2007. The head of Android, Andy Rubin, was in a car when the presentation kicked off. He asked the driver to pull over to watch it online, according to Dogfight.
"Android is very fragmented," Jobs said on an earnings call in 2010. "The users will have to figure it all out."
"I think Steve Jobs was in fact terribly worried that Google was going to do to him the same thing that Microsoft did," Vogelstein says.
"Google and Apple were working on developing the smartphone very much at the same time," says Fred Vogelstein, author of Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution.
Then Jobs unveiled a radically different device on stage in January 2007. The head of Android, Andy Rubin, was in a car when the presentation kicked off. He asked the driver to pull over to watch it online, according to Dogfight.
"Android is very fragmented," Jobs said on an earnings call in 2010. "The users will have to figure it all out."
"I think Steve Jobs was in fact terribly worried that Google was going to do to him the same thing that Microsoft did," Vogelstein says.
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