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mattmanser on April 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java creator James Gosling: 'Google totally slimed...

You know what the irony of this is? Show me an Android UI pre-iOS that didn't make me puke.

Google nicked the programming language off Sun and an interface off Apple.

blinkingled on April 30, 2012 [–]

There are ample UI differences between iOS and Android. The similarities end at both being touch interfaces.

Besides, writing J2ME swing style apps was what made a developer puke although the end result of it, the UI was also painful to look at if not as much.

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