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yeah, and it will look slick anyways. They first focused on the features, no the design.... I bet you that the iPhone had also a crappy looking interface when it was in development stage... The difference is that Google shares with us this development stage. I mean, it's so obvious that those ugly buttons with yellow over-color are not gonna be final (they even said: don't look at the interface now)about the iphone copying: well, yes the hardware looks similar, but every phone with a huge touch screen and very few buttons will look similar to the iphone.the sliding over to switch home screens is a no brainer too: it's just like virtual desktops: they've existed for a long time and if you got a touch interface you are obviously gonne slide that stuff over....and I think some people think that apple showed the iphone and then google started copying it... but android was bought in 2005 and those guys have been working on that for years. Of course they got inspired by the iphone, but they I am sure they had most of the ideas long before the iphone came out... having a huge touchscreeny phone is just the next natural step in cell phone development (well android can also be non touch screen...)anyways, I really like the sliding down to see the notifcations.One last word about the iphone vs. android competition: I see it this way: Android is competition for the iPhone, but the iPhone is no competition for android. Why? If the android gets popular, Apple can sell less iPhones (probably) and thus doesn't make as much money... but if customers just buy the 3G iphone over android, Google doesn't make less money. They don't make money off the iphone directly. What they want is users, and the iPhone gives them a lot of map users already for example (and those will also be more likely to use map on the pc).So for Google both, iPhones and android phones out there are good... what is not as good are crappy phones with no easy to use internet

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ah, forgot about that. Nevermind

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Ok the Nokia one is probably the most similar, and I didn't know it existed (and as closely as I follow technology that's kind of sad) but you still can't claim the entire process is as smoothed over as Apple's. From the incentive to create and level of ease on the behalf of the software engineers to the simplicity of downloading and installing on the users' side.

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I didn't say I thought anything was wrong, I'm not familiar with that and wanted clarification without looking into myself. Sorry for asking I guess, didn't know things were so high tension.

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Oh I know they made a mobile version of some anti-virus apps, that's what makes the joke so funny. Don't you think that would kind of suck? Or would you trade the decrease in security and reliability for the increase in potentially available (because any Joe Programmer can make one) software? I can see an argument to both sides, but I'd personally rather have a more locked down phone that I KNEW worked all the time, no matter what. I can deal with the occasional bug in my computer but when I'm on the other side of the world with my phone that might sorta.. piss me off.

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Google deserves its own Digg category.You heard it here first.

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