The problem with Android’s timeline argument

I’m sure that private and public timeline are different, and arguing that the Android timeline is “older” because it was more in the public eye than Apple will cause no end of fanboy wars. But if you want to look at timelines, how about Android before iPhone and Android after iPhone?

imageOS before and after

So pardon me if I raise an eyebrow to Eric Schmidt today:

…I think most people would agree that Google is a great innovator and I would also point out that the Android effort started before the iPhone effort.