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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
"Isaacson writes that Jobs had attempted to persuade Google not to develop a mobile operating system to rival Apple's own by promising the company it would have access to the iPhone and prime real estate on the device."
Android as a company was started in 2003, bought by Google in 2005. The iphone was released in 2007, as was AOSP. Android was already developed by the time iphone came out.
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The first iPhone that was released was actually the third prototype and the first one that that Steve was happy to release. They had been working on it for years before it was released.