[iMore.com]

Back when the very first iPhone was announced in 2007, it took many of us by surprise, including Google. What Steve Jobs held in his hand on stage that day was unlike any smartphone we'd seen to that date, and it set the precedent for what we see today not only from Apple. In a piece on The Atlantic, excerpts from Fred Vogelsteins Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, illustrate what happened next:

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