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The tale of two Androids: Before and after the iPhone

14
Apr
2014

Taking the stand on Friday in the second U.S. Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit, Google’s Android engineering vice president Hiroshi Lockheimer said that the company did not copy iPhone when designing Android. However, Re/code and AppleInsider have obtained internal Google documents submitted into evidence that remind us just how different Android was in the beginning, with the first Android devices not even supposed to support touchscreen displays. “We like to have our own identity,” Lockheimer said while defending Android, revealing that he joined Google in April 2006 to work on Android. The documents in question, however, show how the identity of Android was shaped around the iPhone’s launch, turning it from a BlackBerry lookalike into an iPhone alternative. The “Android Project Software Functional

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