By: Alan Smith
Submitted: 2011-07-12 05:49:53 | Word Count: 501
The smart phone market is growing at an alarming pace. Along with this grows the number of new entrants in the market. As the competition among the smart phone manufacturers is increasing the older players of the market are coming up with innovative strategies and technology not only to retain the older customers but also market their products to new customers. Initially when the smart phone market was being dominated by iPhone and BlackBerry no one thought that one day Google would also enter the smart phone market.
Google is already the undisputed leader among the search engines. It realized soon that as the people are shifting from the desktop PCs and laptops to the smart phones, it will have to create a niche for itself in the smart phone market too. If the Google search engine is not accessible on the smart phones that the people use there are chances the Google may lose its dominance. Considering this, Android was a launched in the market by a group that was lead by Google.
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Android is an open source platform. Its features are such that if the smart phone device is made to run and operate Android, the user just needs to download the Android applications and these applications are more than sufficient to nearly change all the features of the mobile phone. This was initially understood in a wrong way and some of the brands of mobile phones thought that they would lose their brand identity if the devices were made to run the Android applications.
The smart phones started becoming popular and soon Motorola and HTC realized that if they just stuck to manufacturing mobile phones they will have to one day quit the market. So finally they have decided to manufacture mobile devices that can run the Android applications. This has given a big boost to the popularity of Android.
Android is an open source platform and being support by many people who would like the maximum availability and use of resources. As a consequence of this the Android application development costing is found to be much less than that required for developing applications for other platforms such as iPhone and BlackBerry. The reduced costing is one of the main reasons for the popularity of the Android platform.
The technology used by Android is very reliable. Android applications are based on Linux and this offers a great amount of stability to the platform.
The demands of the smart phone users are going on increasing. Day by day they have starting demanding for more functionalities and more effective features. There are number of Android applications already available in the market, but if you are still not satisfied with that and you want a tailored Android application it is easy to get Android application developers that can meet your demands.
