Apple in a response to HTC's review request for a loss at the ITC directly accused Google's mobile VP Andy Rubin of poaching ideas for Android while he worked at Apple. During his tenure as an engineer at the company during the early 1990s, he supposedly worked under those who invented one of the real-time programming interfaces that HTC was accused of violating. The iPhone maker admitted it wasn't directly relevant to the review but said it was proof of HTC altering the truth, such as when it said that the underpinnings only ever began at General Magic or Danger,