It’s not a big surprise that companies take inspiration from their rivals, but to realize that most features in Apple and Android smartphones are similar is a slight surprise! Both smartphones advertise their operating systems as different from one another in terms of features and functionality, but it’s actually the opposite. Check out the list of similarities by Popular Science here.
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The joke was on manufacturers of Android phone. Google admitted that they stole intellectual property from IBM and,even though they said Android was free to distribute, they had to charge manufactures billions of dollars and pass it on to IBM and Apple.