Android IOS copy? We asked Google product manager

Android iOS elements copied from Apple? It is an issue that senior management for the operating system Google Android want to participate in.

Hugo Barra, director of product management for Google's Android in London insisted Tuesday that he had not heard of the revelations that emerged on Friday from the biography of Steve Jobs: that the late chief executive of Apple, "vowed Android destroy "and was so enraged by what he saw as the copy implemented in Android 2.1 on HTC phones launched in January 2010, Eric Schmidt called a meeting in March and said he wanted it stopped.

"Did he say that?" Barra said, sounding surprised. He said he had been traveling and had not heard the stories.

When given details about them - and asked if I would say that all elements in the latest version of Android, such as two-line preview email messages in Gmail application (located in the email program from Apple's iPhone since 2007), or rapid "answer" button at the bottom of the email application (almost identical in order and purpose to the email program Apple iPhone), or providing direct access to the camera from the phone lock screen (first time in IOS previews June 5), or additional features added to the Android notification bar - copies IOS, said: "I will not to enter into this. "

Bar refused to answer when asked Google had launched a "feature freeze" Ice Cream Sandwich, a new version of Android, which will take place on cell must be delivered from next month. A "feature freeze" is the point where no new features are added to the code, so it can be tested and refined, "That's an internal matter," he said.

Barra joined the efforts of Google Android in December 2010, and was instrumental in the development of Ice Cream Sandwich, which is version 4.0 of Android. He said a key objective was to improve the Android user experience, and work out what to do and how, in any case, that change had included large-scale testing with actual users and Android users to find out what they found difficult or wanted to see.

"Much of the code [of Ice Cream Sandwich] coincided with the honeycomb [which was released to manufacturers in February 2011]," said Barra. The "gold master" version of Ice Cream Sandwich was time to launch the Samsung Nexus Galaxy last week in Hong Kong.

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