Android Moving up in the World

Google's Android operating system for smartphones has been one of the major success stories of recent years. Google bought Android Inc, as a start-up, two years ago and since them developers have flocked to it to the extent of hundreds of thousands of new apps, some say as much as a million new apps. Android is based on the Linux system, which makes it pretty much open for developers, something that works in the technology world and that Apple should have learned many years ago when it lost market share to IBM and its clones by keeping their Apples closed.

Now, Android is positioned as the front-runner in the smartphone world, and predictions are that its star will continue to rise. For example, see this article.