Android is a free and open source operating system based on Linux, which is mainly used for mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets. It was led and developed by Google and open handset alliance.
1998, Larry Page and sergey brin jointly developed the Google online search engine in the dormitory of Stanford University in the United States, and quickly spread it to information searchers all over the world; On August 7th, Google Inc was established in Mountain View, California, USA. It is a private joint-stock company. In the same year, Google PageRank patent was invented.
On June 5th, 2007, 165438+Google announced the development of an open source mobile operating system based on Linux platform, and named it Android.
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First, the history of Android
From June 5438 to October 2003 10, Andy Rubin and others founded the Android company and formed the Android team.
On August 17, 2005, Google quietly acquired the high-tech enterprise Android and its team, which was established only 22 months ago. Andy Rubin became Google's vice president of engineering and continued to be in charge of the Android project.
On June 5th, 2007, 165438+Google officially showed the operating system named Android to the outside world, and on this day, Google announced the establishment of a global alliance organization, consisting of 34 mobile phone manufacturers, software developers, telecom operators and chip manufacturers.
And with 84 hardware manufacturers, software developers, telecom operators to form an open mobile phone alliance to jointly develop and improve the Android system. This alliance will support the mobile phone operating system and application software released by Google, which released the source code of Android under the authorization of Apache free open source license.
Second, Google's business.
1, business section
Including Internet search, cloud computing, advertising technology, developing and providing a large number of Internet-based products and services, developing online software and application software, and also developing Android operating system and Google ChromeOS operating system for mobile devices. ?
2. Organizational structure
2014101On October 25th, Larry Page, CEO of Google, handed over the leadership of Google's core products to sundar pichai, vice president, and Pichai was also the head of Google's Android, Chrome and application businesses. ?
On August 20 15, Google announced that it would reorganize into a new holding company, Alphabet, and adopt a new operating structure to separate its search, YouTube and other online subsidiaries from the R&D investment department. At the same time, Google announced that Alphabet will become the name of the new holding company.
201510 On February 2nd, Google announced the reorganization of its holding company, and Alphabet became Google's successor. Since the first quarter of 20 16, Alphabet has been divided by Google and other businesses.
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