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MajorGeeks.Com » News » April 2013 » Android was originally designed to be a camera platform

Android was originally designed to be a camera platform


Contributed by: Email on 04/16/2013 10:49 AM [ comments Comments ]




Here is an interesting bit of news from the Android founder. I am sure many of you remember the rumors that Google was working on an operating system and numerous other rumors but now we know how it came to be the popular smartphone and tablet line-up thanks to a report on PCWorld.

"The exact same platform, the exact same operating system we built for cameras, that became Android for cellphones," said Android co-founder Andy Rubin, who spoke at an economic summit in Tokyo.

Rubin, who became a Google executive after the search giant acquired Android in August 2005, said the plan was to create a camera platform with a cloud portion for storing photos online.

During his speech he also showed slides of the original 2004 pitch which included a camera connected to a home computer wired or wirless.

Handsets worked out better than cameras. An original "ambitious" projection by the company aimed for a 9 percent market share in North America and Europe by 2010; Android hit 72 percent last year. Google said in March that over 750 million Android devices have gone on line globally.







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