As Samsung opened their defense Friday against Apple’s patent infringement claims and its demand for 2.2 billion U.S. dollars in damages, their lawyers tried to put a human face on Google’s Android development efforts. The eight-person jury at the federal court in San Jose heard about the early days of Android, the long period engineers put into the operating system, and the “tasty treats” successive iterations were named after, such as Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.
The former Android chief Rubin said to Lockheimer, vice president of engineering on Google’s Android team that they hadn’t talked in a while but they’re welcome to check out the work. He also said that he thought of Google as a search firm and he didn’t realize Google was engaged on a mobile operating system.
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