Today marks exactly three years since Google and a slew of hardware and carrier partners officially announced the Android mobile operating system.It was almost a year after that before the first major Android (
Today, a wide variety of manufacturers are producing Android phones, and they�re sold on all major carriers in the U.S. In fact, in aggregate they�re now outselling those running on Apple�s iOS, with recent numbers putting Google ()�s share of the mobile operating system market at nearly 20%.
With variants of the Android operating system now being extended to other platforms like tablets, Internet-connected televisions and even automobiles, we can only see it getting more pervasive in the years ahead.
Three years ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said, �Our vision is that the powerful platform we�re unveiling will power thousands of different phone models.� Three years later, it appears his company is very much on the way to doing so.
source : mashable
