What is Android?

What is Android?

                                               

1. Android is the software that runs more than one phone or tablet in two in the world.

2. Android is mobile operating system software  like "Windows" is a PC operating system., It runs your mobile. There are other competing mobile operating systems like iOS Apple, BlackBerry OS, Bada, Windows mobile…

3. Android is an open operating system whose source code is freely accessible (unlike Apple or Microsoft systems) which allows any manufacturer to integrate it into their system for free. This model is opposed to the Apple model, and largely explains the strong growth experienced by Android.

4. Android is Linux based

5. Android runs on a wide variety of different phone and tablet brands such as Samsung, Motorola, Sony, Google Nexus, Acer, LG, Dell and much more ( full list on android.com ) This diversity represents both an advantage (diversity and choice for the consumer) and a disadvantage (problems of compatibility of the applications with the various models, in particular the most exotic)

6. Android belongs to Google, which bought it in 2005 from a start-up of the same name

7. Android 's mascot and logo is a green robot named BUGDROID , a logo licensed under creative commons, that is to say reusable and modifiable.

8. Android is experiencing the strongest  current growth in the mobile OS market and is overtaking Apple in world market shares. Several hundreds of thousands of Android devices are sold every day in the world (up to 1.5 Million activation per day according to Google)

9. Android has its own application market called Google Play

10. Tomorrow Android will potentially be embedded in a multitude of everyday devices such as televisions, cars, cameras, game consoles, refrigerators, your home ... the prospects are endless ... it all depends on the choices of the leaders and consumer purchasing behavior.