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joshcryer

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64. Android beta was 5 months after iPhone and supported touch screen.

Fri Dec 20, 2013, 05:16 AM

Dec 2013

The first Android phones had keypads because Blackberry's were very popular and texting was ramping up.

But they had touch screens and swiping and gesturing on the HTC Dream. They also had multi-touch ability in the original API (though early Androids didn't support it).

The only thing that Android didn't launch with was a virtual keyboard, an oversight, of course, since that's a simple app but the first phone had a built in keyboard and many Android phones after that did.

The idea that the HTC Dream and entire Android OS was reworked in 5 months is absolutely preposterous. And guess what? The article already makes it clear that the Dream project was made the focus after the iPhone released.

It's not a company copying from another company but accepting a better technology that they were both developing simultaneously.

But it's nice to see the revisionism anyhow.

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