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Android has helped create more alternatives and innovations on the mobile platform than ever existed
Google's response to the allegations of the European Commission
Hard to believe, but 10 years ago there was virtually no smartphones. People used primitive phones with very basic functionality, a nightmare for developers. Create applications accounted separately for each model and platform. We in Google was a closet with hundreds of phones, each of them we tested the software before release.
Android was born because of this mess. We were hoping to make quality operating system open source to drive innovation and enable manufacturers and developers to focus on what they have coming out best. While most people think that a great plan.
And now in our time. The speed of innovation has never been so high. Smartphones are sold all over the world in huge volumes, hundreds of millions on a quarterly basis, and the average price has fallen by 23% since 2012 on 2014's. Who is a powerful smartphone without subsidies and contracts can be found for less than $ 100. The ecosystem of applications just exploded and gives people more choice than ever.
Android has become a key element of this revolution, encouraging competitiveness and the availability of alternative options, lower prices, increased choice for each (currently on the market more 18 000 different device models).
Hard to believe, but 10 years ago there was virtually no smartphones. People used primitive phones with very basic functionality, a nightmare for developers. Create applications accounted separately for each model and platform. We in Google was a closet with hundreds of phones, each of them we tested the software before release.
Android was born because of this mess. We were hoping to make quality operating system open source to drive innovation and enable manufacturers and developers to focus on what they have coming out best. While most people think that a great plan.
And now in our time. The speed of innovation has never been so high. Smartphones are sold all over the world in huge volumes, hundreds of millions on a quarterly basis, and the average price has fallen by 23% since 2012 on 2014's. Who is a powerful smartphone without subsidies and contracts can be found for less than $ 100. The ecosystem of applications just exploded and gives people more choice than ever.
Android has become a key element of this revolution, encouraging competitiveness and the availability of alternative options, lower prices, increased choice for each (currently on the market more 18 000 different device models).
- This is an open-source software that anyone can use for free - it's true, literally everyone. And not only on mobile phones. Today people build almost anything on Android, including tablets, watches, televisions, cars, and more. Some Android-powered devices use services on Google, as другие no.
- Our catalog Google Play contains more than one million applications, we have paid more than $ 7 billion in revenue over the last year developers and content publishers.
- Applications that compete directly with Google, such as Facebook , Amazon, Microsoft Office, and Expedia, are readily available to users Android. In the end, many of these applications are preset on smartphones with applications Google. A good example - the last Samsung S6, where the pre-installed software Facebook, Microsoft and Google.
- The developers have a choice between platforms, and more than 80% of them make applications for multiple mobile operating systems.
Agreement against fragmentation, for example, are designed to ensure uniform application performance on all kinds of different Android-devices. (After all, would be quite a shame if Download the app for a smartphone, you can not run it on another smartphone, temporary use). And our agreement extending the application must ensure that the right people get a quality set of services "out of the box" with useful programs directly on the home screen (how many of us can spend the day without maps and e-mail?). It also helps manufacturers of Android devices to compete with Apple, Microsoft and other mobile ecosystems that once installed similar basic applications. And remember that these distribution agreements are not exclusive, so that the manufacturers have the right to set their own applications as well as from other companies. Compared to Apple - the most profitable in the world of mobile phone manufacturer - on Android phones preinstalled applications much less Google, Apple applications than on devices iOS.
We are pleased with the success of Android and understand that with success comes criticism. But not only Google will benefit from the success of Android. Android model has allowed producers to compete with their own unique innovations. Developers have access to a huge audience, many of them have created a big business. And users now have an unrivaled selection and prices, low as ever. We hope to discuss these issues in more detail with the European Commission in the coming months.
Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android i> Do you approve of the European Commission antitrust charges over OS Android? Yes No I do not know, it is necessary to examine all the facts Voted 779 people. 75 people abstained. Only registered users can vote in polls. Sign , please.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/249056/
