{"id":8997,"date":"2014-06-17T10:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T17:10:41","slug":"the-history-of-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/the-history-of-android\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/06\/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os\/\">Ron Amadeo<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/the-history-of-android\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/06\/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os\/\"><p>Looking back, Android&rsquo;s existence has been a blur. It&rsquo;s now a historically big operating system. Almost a billion total devices have been sold, and 1.5 million devices are activated per day&mdash;but how did Google get here? With this level of scale and success, you would think there would be tons of coverage of Android&rsquo;s rise from zero to hero. However, there just <em>isn&rsquo;t<\/em>. Android wasn&rsquo;t very popular in the early days, and until Android 4.0, screenshots could only be taken with the developer kit. These two factors mean you aren&rsquo;t going to find a lot of images&nbsp;or information out there about the early versions of Android.<\/p>\n<p>The problem now with the lack of early coverage is that <em>early versions of Android are dying.<\/em> While something like Windows 1.0 will be around forever&mdash;just grab an old computer and install it&mdash;Android could be considered the first cloud-based operating system. Many features are heavily reliant on Google&rsquo;s servers to function. With fewer and fewer people using old versions of Android, those servers are being shut down. And when a cloud-reliant app has its server support shut off, it will never work again&mdash;the app crashes and displays a blank screen, or it just refuses to start.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Amadeo (via Nick Heer): Looking back, Android&rsquo;s existence has been a blur. It&rsquo;s now a historically big operating system. Almost a billion total devices have been sold, and 1.5 million devices are activated per day&mdash;but how did Google get here? With this level of scale and success, you would think there would be tons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,295],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-history"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}