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Google bought Android in August 2005.

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2005/tc200...

The IPhone was launched January 2007.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/01/09iphone.html

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?

No. But did Google have knowledge of the details of the IPhone before it launched?

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