On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Harvey Kane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Personally I'm quite fond of my Android, but you can't say with any > seriousness that it's not a blatant knockoff of an iphone / ipad. Would > Google have come up with that idea by themselves if Jobs hadn't laid the > groundwork for them and given the market an appetite? Ditto for everything > else that Apple came up with over the years. > Kyocera 6035 2001 (Closed source) BlackBerry 2002 (Closed source) Maemo (Linux based) Nov 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo#Version_history iPhone (closed source) 2007 OpenMoko (Linux based) 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko Google had plenty of systems they could study. The real shame is that Android killed OpenMoko rather than the closed source alternatives Bruce -- Bruce Clement Home: http://www.clement.co.nz/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/Bruce_Clement Directory: http://www.searchme.co.nz/ "Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field." Mikhail Kalashnikov -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
