As you already know very well, the operating system Android it was initially designed to work on smartphones with a QWERTY keyboard, during its development these were extremely popular and considered to be "of the future". Submission iPhonechanged things completely, and on the day after the conference Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), those of the Google they made the decision to completely redo what they had developed for Android. Google had been developing its Android for 2 years, having 40 engineers responsible for designing the operating system, but it decided to "throw everything in the trash" immediately after the launch of the iPhone, considering that to compete with Apple it is necessary of an operating system similar to theirs.
One of those involved in the project explains that at the time of the presentation of the iPhone, he was among those who wanted one, but as a Google engineer he knew that the company's project had to be completely redesigned. At that time, there were no App Stores, there was no industry of developing mobile operating systems or applications, and users only got by with what the terminal manufacturers offered them. The devices that had touch screens used resistive touchscreens that needed a stylus and the terminals themselves were extremely difficult to operate, but everything changed with the release of the iPhone.
The Android operating system and the smartphone developed by Google at that time were similar to the iPhone, they had dedicated applications for various tasks, they were capable of multitasking, they offered access to some Google applications, but they were not good enough . The phone didn't have an attractive design, it didn't have a touchscreen, but Android could work on tablets and this was a big advantage, but still, Google decided to give up two years of work and start it from the beginning because iPhone- and iOS were clearly superior to what she had developed.
A few months later, the people from Google launched their first Android smartphone, the operating system being still considered a copy of iOS, a stigma that Google will not get rid of very soon.
