Android- the leading operating system of the entire world was founded on founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2004 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. The operating system was developed by Google by modifying Linux kernel and other open source software and designed especially for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Though there are many other operating systems available for mobiles Android is the dominant OS among all.
In this post, we present some of the interesting facts about android, hope you will enjoy reading.
- On July 2005 Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million
- Android was actually created for digital cameras
- Out 100 percent 85 percent of the devices use Android as their operating system
- After Google made Android an open source project it gained popularity
- Android is a modified version of Linux
- Most of the android versions are entitled with the name of sweets
- In 2007 when Android was released, Nokia stated “we don’t see this as a threat”
- The emergence of the Android downed the business of Nokia
- Microsoft earns $2 billion a year from Android in the form of patent royalties
- Android gets 2 billion active devices every month
- Android actually means male Robot, Andy Rubin founder of Android was very much fascinated to robots
- The first prototype of Android was used in a keypad mobile which used to look like Blackberry phones
- Statista reports, as per the latest report of March 2018 there are 3.3 million Android apps. Earlier in July 2013, there were 1 million apps in Playstore
- At least 1000 apps are submitted per day in Playstore
- WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram are the top 3 most downloaded apps from Google Play store
- Android Logging System has a method known as wtf() which stands for “What a Terrible Failure”
- Android devises businesses more than Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Mac OS X devices combined
- In late 2018, some of the critics said Android would fail miserablyIf you know more interesting facts about Android please mention them in the comment box.
