RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 2008
Android 1.0
Thumbing second
Remember, kids – this terrifying technological concoction showed up a full 18 months after the iPhone. But hey, at least it had copy/paste and home screen widgets.
O
h,
look
–
a
proper
smartphone
OS.
Not
like
the
rubbish
system
iPhone
users
have.
Well, arguments still rage about what impact the iPhone had on Android. We know it began as a camera OS, before pivoting to phones and being swallowed up by Google. There’s evidence to suggest early iterations were BlackBerry-flavoured… but Android fans claim it was always designed for multiple input types, and Google long had versions running on keyboard phones as well as touchscreen devices. Which might be why the first Android blower tried to give us both.