How the original iPhone forced Google to completely rebuild Android

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http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VyZTNSXFBRGJnpKXqUya3w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/iphone-apple-reinvents-the-phone-1.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/original-iphone-forced-google-completely-rebuild-android-152547037.html)The day Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone model (January 9th, 2007,) Google’s Android team, which had been secretly working on a smartphone for two years, took a “kick in the stomach,” The Atlantic revealed. While Google knew, as everyone else also knew at the time, that Apple was working on a smartphone, the company “just didn’t think it would be that good,” Ethan Beard, an early Android business development executive said. Watching the iPhone keynote on his way to a CES 2007 Android-related meeting in Las Vegas, Rubin reportedly stopped his car to see the entire performance Steve Jobs was putting on stage at the time. “Holy crap,” he told a colleague, “I guess we’re not going to ship



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