Android’s biggest strength is driving people to the iPhone

Once upon a time, a team of engineers began work on a mobile operating system called Android. The platform began its life as an uninspired BlackBerry OS clone , but one glimpse of Apple's new iPhone would help Google realize that it needed a serious course correction. As a result, the version of Android that debuted on the HTC Dream in 2008 was much more iPhoney than the version that had been previewed by Google a year earlier. Despite the similarities to Apple's mobile software,