Present to you a little story about the creation and development of the company that brought us the green robot.
Android and Google
The story began in October 2003, in California. At that time, Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White - came from telecommunications giants (Dander, Wildfire, T-Mobile, and WebTV) - founded a startup to develop applications for mobile devices.
The newly company was named Android.
Two years later, in July 2005, the company says Google and buys it for an undeclared sum. The founders continue to work in Android Inc, now under the control of the Internet giant.
David Lowe, vice president of corporate development for Google called the purchase "the best deal Google».
Development and production
In early November 2007, Google announced a mobile system of its own open source software, called Android.
At the same time was based Business Alliance Open Handset Alliance, which includes companies such as Google, HTC, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Samsung , LG, T-Mobile, NVIDIA, Wind River Systems and others. The alliance is to develop open standards for mobile devices.
For 12 of the first version was released Android SDK (m3-rc20a), and after Google announced a contest «Android Developer Challenge» The prize fund is U.S. $ 10 million. The task of the competition - to create your favorite mobile application. Events were held in 2008 and ended 50 finalists’ award large cash prizes (25-275 thousand dollars.) September 23, 2008 goes Android SDK 1.0 r1, and a month later Open Handset Alliance released the source system Android. The release includes both the operating system and middleware, and key end applications written in Java. The total volume of Android source code was 2.1 GB. "Preferred license" in the source code for Android is an Apache License 2.0. Android platform source code available on source.android.com The next day, went on sale the first smart phone running on the operating system, Android 1.0 « Apple bread »(apple pie). The system was based on the kernel Linux 2.6.25. The device is manufactured by HTC and bore the name of T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream). Also on this day it was announced the opening of Android Market - online shop application from Google.
Problems of
Not without its problems. In October 2010, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google. Oracle lawyers argued that the source code for Android kept proprietary Oracle components, and demanded compensation for damages amounting to $ 2.6 billion.
After several hearings, the court ruled that the revision of the amount of compensation, indicating the starting point of $ 100 million.
Later, the company Google appealed to the U.S. Department of Commerce Agency (USPTO), to review claims the software giant.
And it seems that the attempt was quite successful: in the rechecking USPTO rejected 17 of 21 patent claims. Hearing, which may close this issue, scheduled for October 2011.
That same month, Steve Jobs accused Android in "fragmentation". According to him, work on Android too many devices, it is a hindrance to the development of applications for this OS.
Android today
In early 2011, was announced the third one version of Android - Honeycomb. Released on February 22. The system focuses on the plates.
C version 3.1 the opportunity to connect and add-on USB-devices.
A completely redesigned interface, it is more suitable for larger screens. But the future does not stand still, and now May 10, 2011 at the conference Google I / O 2011 were declared out of Android 4.0. Of the known changes should be noted that version 4.0 will be supported and for the tablets, and smart phones, and other devices based on Android. Also said optimization system for multi-core systems.
Posted by: Wasim Javed
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