Android and its beginnings

There is no better way to spend extra money than purchasing new firms. Well, at least, this is what Google did. Especially if the new firm just started operations and you know very well that it will be a huge  winner. If they are willing to sell, why not grab the chance ?

Unfortunately, many of these companies that got purchased over pass away with a quick and sudden death in the hands of their new possessors. More often than not, nobody ever seen or discovered anything about these companies or their products again.  Luckily for us though, when Google took over Android Inc, this predicament did not happen to them.

The chosen few that knew about Android Inc and its capabilities knew that this company had some of the most sophisticated software package for mobile at that time, and Google saw this as an chance.

Without truly knowing how successful Android will become, Andy Rubin, one of the pioneers of Android Inc Company, and now VP of Engineering for Google, has this to say in 2003 regarding the company and the product.

“There was tremendous potential in developing smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences. If people are smart, that information starts getting aggregated into consumer products….”

As time went on however, it was not Google which revolutionized the mobile smartphone. Rather, it was Apple that went on to launch the iPhone and which in turn become a huge  success globally. Rumours become progressively  rampant that Google, in a bid to challenge the status quo, would be coming out with their own handset . A handset  that will even surpass the performance of iPhone! Many were guessing that we will see the birth of a Google phone soon -- one that will function around location-based services and implement a whole host of Google Labs' ideas, as well as Google Maps and GMail.

There was a perception that with the resources and knowledge that Google had at their disposition, it was just a matter of time before they come up with something better and more advanced than what was in the market at that time. This was something that the media clung to and every small update or news was met with immense  speculations.