Why is this the one thing Android phone makers won't steal from the iPhone?

This might be a difficult pill for hardcore Android fans to swallow, but the Android platform exists as it does today because of Apple's iPhone. Seriously, watch Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz's original Android demo video from back in 2007, when Google gave the world its first look at the company's new mobile platform. As you can plainly see in that video, Android was initially being developed as a terrible clone of the BlackBerry platform, and it might have followed BlackBerry's platform down ...