[citation][nom]Uberragen21[/nom]Answer - you're an idiot. Where to begin, your stupidity is astounding. Think about this for a minute, I know it's hard for someone of such low intelligence as you. But try...Apple released their iPhone on June 29, 2007 and their iTouch on September 5, 2007. On a new product such as this, development can take upwards of 2 years, though usually less since it's such a competitive market. This is why you see new products every year[/citation]
Firstly - this doesn't follow at all. You see new enhancements to existing software every year. Not brand new software, which is what iOS is. Every piece of software takes a different amount of time to develop, and the introduction of iPhone and iOS was arguably one of the biggest historically, so you still have no clue when they started development.
If you claim that Apple only took 2 years to create iOS, and Android took much longer to create something which was adopted far slower, was far less successful, what does that say about Android programmers?
[citation][nom]Uberragen21[/nom]Lets review, Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October, 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger)."Android Inc. operated secretly, revealing only that it was working on software for mobile phones.""Google acquired Android Inc. in August 2005... many assumed that Google was planning to enter the mobile phone market with this move." "On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of several companies...unveiled itself. On the same day, the Open Handset Alliance also unveiled their first product, Android, a mobile device platform built on the Linux kernel version 2.6." So just to be clear NOVEMBER 5, 2007 was when the product was released,
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I wonder if you'll at some point become educated enough to know the difference between unveiling something and releasing it.
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/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
Initial release 20 September 2008
So lets review again:
1 - You still don't understand a calendar
2 - In addition you are illiterate, not knowing the difference between unveiling something and releasing it.
3 - You claim that Company A started before Company B without knowing when Company B started. You now try to justify this by saying both companies were in existence? How ridiculous? We're talking about them starting work on an OPERATING SYSTEM. You claim to know when Android started (although all you know is when the company was formed). You do NOT know when Apple started. Therefore you cannot say one started before the other. Or you can, but it's just crying guesswork.
4 - You site a lack of feature(s) as evidence that they took a certain amount of time, when this has no basis in real logic whatsoever. People can spend 20 years building something with 1 feature, or 1 year building something with 20. You say that 'In a fast paced market such as hand held electronics, slow = failure' - which is true to an extent, but firstly - Companies CAN fail, so this makes your point irrelevant, Secondly - you have to take into account start date, if Apple started earlier then they took a long time but still released their product first. And Thirdly, and most amusingly, your whole point is the big claim that Android started before Apple and released after, meaning they took longer, meaning that they, by your definition, failed. LOL.
5 - Even if your completely failed logic was correct, and that Android development started before iOS, that is completely irrelevant. iOS came out over a year earlier and radically changed the appearance and interface of Android. If anything what you're trying to prove is that Android developers were much slower in coming up with a far more buggy and inefficient system. You claim it wasn't over a year, but that's your illiterate brain rearing it's ugly head again. You don't understand the difference between unveiling and releasing. iOS didn't change much due to Android at all, Android changed radically, and obviously had a lot of time to copy, taking as they did far longer (according to you).
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'Actually Android systems are not slower or more buggy. The OS as published by Google's Android Inc. is very stable and bug free; however, the individual phone manufacturer's tend to modify Android OS so each has their own slight variation. This can sometimes cause unwanted issues, which can easily be resolved by rooting the device and installing the Android release of your choosing.'
Please. lol. Putting aside the fact that you can't just get 'Android' because it has to be developed by a manufacturer anyway, rending your argument completely irrelevant, where is any evidence that it's the phone manufacturers introducing bugs. Are they all building in the same massive, massive core inefficiencies? Please. LOL @ saying the good solution is to root your phones, yeah that's a really good selling point. 'To make our operating system work, please root your phone until you find an implementation which isn't buggy and slow as hell' .. oops sorry there isn't one .Sorry I just don't buy that 10 different manufacturers are all building the same laggy mess in by their own fault.
Lets not get distracted from the core of your failure though. The bottom line is you claim that Android started before Apple. You do not have any evidence of this. You also say that slow = failure yet fail to realise that by that logic, Android failed according to you because they took much longer. Finally, you need to learn the difference between unveiling and releasing. Maybe mummy needs to buy you a dictionary for Christmas.