Cool Facts About Android (1)

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Cool Facts About Android
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Google has finally unveiled their Latest Mobile
Devices, the Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2Xl. They runs
the latest and much awaited android Oreo with
refined notifications and much smoother UI. The
devices would be available for Pre-Order on
Flipkart pretty soon. The Android operating
system has the largest market share in 2017.
Android has taken leaps and bounds to reach where
it is now. Lets check out some trivia about the
beloved OS.
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Built By But Not Invented By Google

• The OS was built by Android Inc. which was
  founded by Andy Rubin who previously worked at
  Apple. HE was called android by his co-workers
  due to his love for robots. Android was developed
  initially as an operating system for cameras.
  Later it was pitched as a mobile operating
  system, due to its potential to rival market
  leaders like Symbian and Windows. In the early
  days of Androic Inc. Samsung had an opportunity
  to invest in the project, but they passed. In
  2004 Google took an interest in the project.
  Later in 2005, Google acquired the company for a
  said amount of 50 million. Andy Rubin and his
  team joined Google as a result of the
  acquisition. After the iphone launch in 2007
  Google took some time to improve and launch the
  operating system on November 5, 2007.

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Highest Market Share

• The HTC Dream was one of the first mobile to run
  on an android OS in 2008. Back then market
  leaders like Nokia didnt feel a threat from the
  new kid in town. Fast forward into the future we
  see that Nokia and windows OS mobiles have gone
  extinct.

Nobody could expect Androids tremendous growth.
Currently Android commands over 80 of the market
share, competing majorly against IOS. Google has
reported that, more than 1.3 Billion users are
active on android run mobiles tablets
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Named After Sweet Treats

• Apart From the earlier version of the Os Which
  were Android 1.0 and 1.1, all Android versions
  that followed, are named after sweet treats, like
  Jelly Bean, Lollipop, Marshmallow to name a few.
  The Os has been released in alphabetical order
  starting with android c, which was called
  cupcake. The reason behind using such a
  nomenclature is due to ease of naming the
  multitude of versions which would be released
  eventually. Google says that it is an internal
  team thing to be inscrutable.

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Open Source

• Google has been an open source platform which
  allows developers to customize it. Therefore we
  see custom android on different phones. Samsung
  has the heavily modified Samsung Experience as
  its user interface. Oneplus uses a custom android
  based sytem called Oxygen OS which is more close
  to Googles version of android. Android allows
  developers the freedom to make something new. All
  these custom ecosystems are android based and
  reflect the developers vision. Google does not
  take a cut from Oems as its an open source
  platform. Google gets its revenue mostly in the
  form of advertisements.

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The Mascot 

• The Human robot like logo which is the mascot of
  the android Os was created by a designer by the
  name of Irina Blok. It resembles a male robot,
  and is called Bugdroid internally by team members
  at Google.

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Google android has changed the way we use our
mobile devices with its amazing day to day usage
applications like maps, Google Music More. If
you are one of those proud owners of an android
device like me, then you can now feel great to be
part of the android family.