In 2005 Google made a strategic move that by now it is deeply proud, even though it turned out to be something different from what was originally proposed. When they acquired what is now their mobile operating system and signed its creator, Andy Rubin, Android was intended for a new generation of cameras, to be an engine that allows the sharing of photos through services such as email or uploading them to the cloud. In the next three years until the release of the first device with an Android spirit, the people of Mountain View along with this great innovator realized that they could use it to smart phones.
Recently at a conference in Tokyo, the former head of Android and its creator recognized this twist in the intentions of his great software. The most impressive thing is that the interface that we found back in 2008 in the HTC Dream, the first smartphone with this OS, did not differ much from the aesthetic pattern that it had followed when it was designed to manage cameras. Its interface tactile, as well as the application selection menus already existed previously and they did not undergo too much modification.
In that conference he explained how ambitions grew. From thinking of an OS that would serve to promote a fluid connection between a PC or a camera, it was seen that this market was really small and that it was necessary to be more ambitious. At the time, both Microsoft and Symbian were the main threat, since the iPhone didn't even exist.
To this day we cannot imagine mobile devices, especially smartphones, without Android. 1,5 million terminals are activated every day more that enter the Google platform. Paradoxes of fate, now we see the emergence of photo cameras that are powered by Android, such as Samsung's Galaxy Camera, and that finish fulfilling that function that their visionary gave them. Fair enough.
Source: PC World