Android is expanding its reach into other domains apart from mobile

The Android OS (operating system) was actually not primarily designed to be utilized on mobile phones. If in case the inventors’ initial plans worked out, people would not be talking about smartphones but smart cameras. Compared to OS for other mobile gadgets, the Android OS has been updated a remarkable number of times, which resulted in a web-based service that is notably different than the initial version of this mobile technology.

Android Technology’s Earlier Phase

Four technology experts have joined forces in 2003 to create Android Inc. of Palo Alto, California. These are Rich Miner, Andy Rubin, Chris White and Nick Sears. The four experts worked to design an OS for mobile devices that could perceive both a user’s position and their particular preferences. Initially, the Android group wanted to apply the software into digital camera gadgets, allowing cameras to access computer services. Nonetheless, the company acknowledged that there’d be low demand for certain computer camera devices. Because of this, the development activities shifted to a focus on mobile phones.

Android silently became Google’s property in August 2005. The search engine giant purchased the start-up company for a price that is undisclosed, which is believed to be about $50 million. Even though a few people thought at the time that the move would reverberate in Google’s influence of the mobile OS, the majority believed that Google was attempting to make a significant charge into web-based utilities on mobile platforms.

Other interesting devices that use the Android operating system are as follows:

• Cameras
• Smart TVs
• Smart glasses
• Mirrors
• Headphones
• Video game consoles
• Portable media players
• Home automation technology (It controls a wide range of household gadgets that include power sockets, thermostats and light switches.)

Android OS powers millions of mobile gadgets in over 190 countries across the globe. It is the biggest introduced base of any portable and handheld devices and is expanding fast. Every day a million of customers power up their Android gadgets for the first time and they start looking for games, apps and some other digital content.

Android provides a very high class platform for making games and apps for Android users everywhere in the world, as well as an unbarred marketplace for dispensing to them readily. The OS provides tools for creating great apps that take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware on each device. It can automatically adapt the UI to have a great look on every gadget while it gives much control over the UI on various types of devices.

Android has overtaken Windows as the world’s most well-known operating system. Google’s Android is currently king, thanks to the mobile platform. The Android system has become the world’s greatest OS for getting online.

StatCounter, a web analytics firm, revealed that Android is the world’s topmost OS web usage market share. Android utilization hit 37.93% in March, when looking at the mixed usage of it across different platforms such as laptop, desktop, mobile and tablet. That was sufficient to narrowly overtake Microsoft Windows’ 37.91%.

StatCounter’s CEO Aodhan Cullen expressed that this is another technology history’s milestone and the conclusion of Microsoft’s era that started in the 1980s. In addition, it also means to be Android’s major breakthrough. It held a merely 2.4% of global internet utilization share just five years ago.

The web analytics firm took the data from 2.5 million internet sites. It also ranked iOS, which is in the third place as the most popular operating system for getting users online with 13.09%. On the other hand, Linux only had 0.75% of web usage.

A large chunk of Android users originate from locations other than the USA. StatCounter revealed st week that the utilization of mobile internet in India was at 79%. It was more than double when compared with the US (37.2%) or the UK (34.8%).

In March, the company’s analytics conveys that Android is dominating the mobile operating system market share in global scale with 71.61%. iOS had 19.5%, while Windows had a meager 1.01%. Considering that Windows Phone platform was poorly received by consumers, it is not that surprising.

Windows, however, still holds the world title as the most utilized OS on laptops and desktops. With a 39.5% market share in the month of March, Windows is still the most popularly used platform in North America. With this, the iOS platform is closely following with 25.7% usage, and next is 21.2% of Android usage. Meanwhile, in Europe, Microsoft Windows is on 51.7% of devices. However, in Asia, Android OS is on 52.2%, and Windows is on just 29.2% of devices.

Cullen said that Windows came victorious on the desktop war, but then the battlefield has moved on. It will not be easy for Microsoft to create inroads in the mobile platform, yet the next model shift might provide it the chance to regain its dominance. That could be in the case on AI, augmented reality, voice or continuum, which is a product that has the goal to replace a smartphone and a desktop with just one Microsoft powered phone.

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