Google Android (article from Wired)

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Here comes Android, the open source operating system tha t will break the corporate stranglehold on the wireless web, make it fun to surf from your cell, and (oh yeah ) scoop up billions of dollars in mobile ads.

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That’s what Andy Rubin was asking Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a conference room just off the main lobby at Google’s headquarters. A simple yes and Rubin would have walked away happy. • They had met three years before, when Rubin was about to launch a smartphone he’d invented called the Sidekick. At the time, Google was just an up-andcomer, trailing AOL and even Lycos in traffic. But Rubin, a well-known Silicon Valley player, chose Google as the Sidekick’s default search engine. Page was flattered by the unexpected endorsement. So when Rubin called out of the blue and requested this meeting, well, Page couldn’t say no. • The Google cofounder arrived late, as usual. Rubin walked to the whiteboard and began his pitch. There were nearly 700 million cell phones sold each year compared with fewer than 200 million PCs—and the gap was widening. Increasingly, he said, phones were the way people wanted to connect with each other and with everything else. Yet the mobile industry was stuck in the dark ages. Unlike the Web, where open standards had fostered a multitude of cool companies and applications, mobile was a tyrannical, closed system, repelling all innovators and disrupters who tried to gain entrance. • Rubin said his startup, called Android, had the solution: a free, open source mobile platform that any coder could write for and any handset maker could install. He would make his money by selling support for the system—security services, say, or email management. Android would have the spirit of Linux and the reach of Windows. It would be a global, open operating system for the wireless future.
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Since Google doesn’T do ha rdware, It doesn’t care how any individual phone is pimped out as long as the thing runs on Android software.
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