It's also worth noting, though, that early Android phones were much more like Blackberry competitors:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/two-photos-here-of-a-... http://gizmodo.com/334909/google-android-prototype-in-the-wi...

And once the iPhone was released, the target form factor changed. There's a fair share of Apple inspiration in the industry.

But you just compared the acquisition of Android to the launch date of the iPhone. Are you saying that the development and manufacture of the iPhone all took place in 2007?