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THE STORY OF ANDROID :- From The Failing Startup To The World’s Biggest Operating System

Androidis an operating system that swept away all other available operating systems (OS) in the market. It has been around 10 years old Of Android and had captivated everyone’s heart very strongly. Android is a very unique and a resultant of Google’s continuous quest for upgraded technology. Google also gives away this OS free to many hardware manufacturers so that they can use Android on their…

Android is a mobile OS which was originally developed by Android Inc. in 2004 by a 8 members team lead by the founder Andy Rubin. 14 years ago when Samsung rejected Andy Rubin's offer to support Android nobody thought there is a big game changer is coming in the smartphone OS market. After the rejection from Samsung Google came forward to purchase the Android paying $50 million for the OS and that was the most important purchase for Google they ever made for business.

Today Android Controls about 88% of largest smartphone market whereas iOS accounts for 11% and rest of the shares go to other operating systems.

Many people did not know how Android was made, it is exactly developed based on the open source operating system Linux Kernel so it has made an opportunity for individuals to customize Android to bring new innovative features for their stylish living.

Android has been the best-selling OS worldwide on smartphones since 2011 and on tablets since 2013. As of May 2017, it has over two billion monthly active users, the largest installed base of any operating system, and as of 2017, the Google Play store features over 3.5 million apps.

There is a lot of interesting facts you can learn by visualizing our Infographic which features top 20 amazing facts (known and unknown facts) about android.