Not really. The “I guess we’re not shipping that phone” quote was about not shipping the Blackberry-clone Sooner device, but the full-screen touch-first “dream” prototype was already on the drawing board.
Android source code is publicly available, with time stamps. You can read it and see how little had to change to make it a touch first ux.
Android had to add multi-touch events, make the default controls bigger, and add inertial scrolling to the list views. They didn’t even have to add a soft keyboard, because the first few gens of phones had physical keyboards.
Android source code is publicly available, with time stamps. You can read it and see how little had to change to make it a touch first ux.
Android had to add multi-touch events, make the default controls bigger, and add inertial scrolling to the list views. They didn’t even have to add a soft keyboard, because the first few gens of phones had physical keyboards.