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Started by : Nisha , Associate/Sr. Associate -(Technical), IBM   10 11 2010 09:54:13 +0000
Industry : Communications and NetworkingFunctional Area : Application Software(Technology)
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Google Android has been riding a wave of staggering growth in 2010, going from barely a blip on the market share radar to the fastest growing mobile platform on the planet, challenging BlackBerry for top honors in the U.S. and setting its sights on Nokia for supremacy worldwide.

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How is it that Android has pulled off such a massive coup so quickly? Or what are the factors that are powering Android revolution??

 
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idea posted by Nisha Associate/Sr. Associate -(Technical), IBM

It’s easy to argue that Android is an iPhone knock-off. After all, when Google was originally working on a mobile platform, it was much more similar to BlackBerry or Windows Mobile with a smaller screen and a hardware keyboard. But then, Apple changed the smartphone game in January 2007 with the introduction of the iPhone.

We should credit Google for recognizing the fact that the iPhone was a game-changer. After all, RIM and Microsoft both missed it. They wrote off the iPhone as a toy which it was at first and continued with their existing strategies. That was a critical mistake that both companies are still trying to recover from.

Meanwhile, Google changed its plans and announced the Android OS and the Open Handset Alliance. By the time the first Android phone arrived in 2008, Android no longer resembled BlackBerry or Windows Mobile. Instead, it featured a full touchscreen like the iPhone, but with the option for a slide-down hardware keyboard.

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Google has an advantage of advertising. It is always good in promoting and selling. Till now Google folks have sold each and everything (Orkut exception). Android is no where an exception.

On top of that Android is first mobile platform which is freely available to people. Opening it in free domain has put additional advantage to it.

As it is open so there will be big support in future so new folks will be more inclined to work on android instead cocoa platform. I do not know how much distance has android covered but its catching up speed is amazing compare to others... 

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by Gopalakrishnan , Senior VoIP Support, CEM Solutions  | 10 11 2010 11:55:19 +0000

Google announced its Android OS as open source... But the problem in the Android OS is they are releasing the versions in every six months and stopped with 2.2 Froyo. Most of the devices are using Android 2.1 only some operators are allowing to upgrade....

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