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Android device came out in late 2008, Apple iPhones 3 percent of the 37 disputed interfaces and “less than 0.1 percent of the 15 million relevant lines of code in Android,” according to Google’s brief.reason, it claims. By the time the first commercial had been on the market for more than a year. Goo-gle hoped the Android platform would eventually rival Apple’s then-dominant iOS platform. By leaving Google left the declarations unaltered for a good
Android’s ability to compete as a practical matter.the Java declarations intact, it enabled millions of independent developers who had already invested time in learning the Java programming language—one of the leading programming languages in the world—have rewritten the declarations would have crippled new platform,” says the American Antitrust Institute’s “Imagine you are trying to come to market with a to build apps for the Android platform. To
Apple with Steve Jobs; Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, position in the case. “[They] merely describe what this brief include Steve Wozniak, who co-founded without specifying how it does so.” (Signatories to themfunctional tasks a computer program will perform summons into operation is the “implementing code.”eminent computer scientists who support Google’s “[Declarations] are not comselves,” says a brief filed on behalf of 78 puter programs^
As a result, the copied code makes up only about co-invented the RSA public-key cryptosystem.)lying “implementing code” for each of those tasks. declarations. But it rewrote from scratch the under-centage of Java code—software. For 37 of those packages, it copied Java’s who now works at Google; and Ronald Rivest, who Google Android is comSignificantly, Google copied only a smposed of 168 packages of and only declarations. all per-PLATFORM TOOK A PHONE MANUFACTURERS BLACKBERRY, NOKIA AND DANGER.”
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