Android was originally a button and keyboard driven mobile OS, when the iPhone was released they scrambled to switch the UI to touch.
When given detail about them – and asked whether he would say that any elements in the latest version of Android, such as the two-line preview of emails in the Gmail app (found in Apple's iPhone email program since 2007), or the "quick response" buttons at the bottom of the email app (almost identical in order and purpose to those in Apple's iPhone email program), or the provision of a shortcut to the camera from the phone's lock screen (first seen in Windows Phone 7 in October 2010 iOS 5 previews in June ), or the extra features added to the Notifications bar in Android – were copying iOS, he responded: "I'm not going to get into this."
LOL WUT?
Android was originally a button and keyboard driven mobile OS, when the iPhone was released they scrambled to switch the UI to touch.
over a decade ago
Closing in on two decades now
This is from 2011... people are considering more recent events.
The lg Prada was the first smartphone without a keyboard.
It’s almost as if it’s a good idea to put good features into phones regardless of where they came from.