Happy Birthday, Android!

Today, Google employees began to receive messages about the birthday of the Android operating system. For a long time I could not understand why today, and not the day when the first Android smartphone appeared. But Google considers not from the moment of T-Mobile G1 release, but from the moment of the announcement in 2007 of the Open Handset Alliance about active development of a new system open for all. At that time, about 30 organizations entered the consortium, including Google, Qualcomm, Motorola, and in the time since the organization of the alliance such companies as Acer, Mediatek, MIPS Technologies and many others joined it.

A considerable number of experts assumed that Android would not take off, and OHA would collapse from internal contradictions, but they turned out to be wrong: Android has long become the most popular smartphone OS, and now it is actively squeezing Apple iOS from the tablet market.

Yes, the platform has a lot of problems, but they are slowly but surely solved, while maintaining not only complete openness, but also complete freedom of the operating system and a liberal attitude to the ecosystem. So, grow big, android. Happy Birthday!