Android is 5 years old

Yesterday, November 5, Google celebrated the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Android operating system.

On November 5, 2007, the Open Handset Alliance consortium introduced a new operating system. Initially, the association included 30 companies, including Google, Qualcomm, Motorola. A little later, they were joined by Acer, Mediatek, MIPS Technologies.

HTC’s first Android–based smartphone, the T-Mobile G1, was released only a year after the platform’s presentation. Then the number of pre-orders for the T-Mobile G1 tripled the forecasts.

Today, 75% of smartphones and 40% of tablets in the world have the Android operating system (according to IDC and Strategy Analytics). The number of applications in the Google Play store has exceeded 700 thousand, and the total number of downloads is over 25 billion. 

And this is far from a record, because only at the moment about 1.3 million devices on the Android platform are activated per day. According to Gartner forecasts, by 2016, bypassing Windows, Android will become the most widespread operating system on the global market as a whole.