... when actual OS started in 2003, bought by Google in 2005, developed copycat of BlackBerry OS user interface, which was thrown away after Apple showed iPhone in 1997. Jobs was really angry since Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board of directors for years and saw all these demos and technical presentation by Apple staff at the meetings (also Apple gave early access to Google to iPhone APIs and UI guidelines) -- only to steal core finger-based UI principles of iPhone. Basically, Google pulled Microsoft trick on Apple and thus became "Do Evil" company from about that time.
Google even lobbed for this fake "net neutrality" policy which would allow them to pay Verizon for pre-emptive data transfer access to their sites in wireless internet connections. This was the same Schimdt who boldly declared war against paid preferenced data channels in his open letter about this issue only few years before, in 2006.
It seems like only yesterday I wrote my exhaustive T-Mobile G1 review (over 260 images) and now here we are three years later and Android is the top dog in the smartphone market. Chris Zeigler wrote an epic article on the history of Android that serves as an amazing resource for anyone interested in the platform’s evolution.
Chris covers the features and functions included with each new release, including new services and utilities. You will learn about all of the dessert upgrades from Google with a focus on the Android OS and not on hardware or skinnable UIs. I have owned an Android device running all of these, except for Honeycomb, and can’t believe how fast time flies and how far we have come in just three years.
I would love to see a Red Licorice upgrade in the future since that is my all-time favorite treat.
