Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low 
    powered feature phones and Blackberries.

I...what? Even if we want to ignore the iPhone for whatever reason, the Palm Treo, Nokia N900, and Windows Phone were firmly established by the time Android started getting demoed--and that was the variant that was very much reminiscent of Windows Phone, with a strong emphasis on the cursor keys over a touchscreen.

The rest of your comment makes sense, but the cognitive dissonance of that sentence was so extreme I had to respond.