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by DAddYE 3240 days ago
Can’t agree more. Also the “invention” of android is debatable to me. Wasn’t a rushed response to iOS?
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dingo_bat 3240 days ago
AFAIK Android was already under development but arrival of iPhone caused it to be completely modified before release.
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cel1ne 3240 days ago
It was originally an OS for cameras. It's a pain to develop on. I believe they used an automated tool to convert a C-codebase to Java (judging from method name, usage of bit-fields instead of enums etc.)
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