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On 5 Nov 2007, Google announced that it had not been working on a gPhone or any handset for that matter. They had actually been hard at work on the core of a whole new open source Operating System, one that might offer a strong challenge to Microsoft and Symbian.
Open Handset Alliance, or OHA, was set up for the growth of Android. Members of the OHA included Google, HTC, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung, LG, T-Mobile and NVIDIA, just to name a few.
For non-programmers, it might be difficult to truly appreciate the good points of Android as an open source Operating System compared to other open source OS available.On the same tone, it will be tough to find anything exceptional or unique with regards to the direction that Android is taking.
If we can make use of the terminology of a jigsaw puzzle, it might make better sense. For a new jigsaw puzzle, what most of us will probably do is to start with a piece we feel more interesting or a piece from the extreme sides and try to build up the bordering parts from there. After a while, we might discover ourselves getting little completed regions here and there and the primary challenge then will be to try to find out the linkages between these small regions to form even bigger areas .
Before the setting up of Android, computer programmers had struggled to break down the bits and pieces of a mobile OS, and even if successful, would discover that getting one part of the system to talk to another was very difficult indeed, as they were packaged up in their own little programs .
But with Android, things change. The OHA, with Google as its primary driving force, has taken up the challenge to literally defrag the entire Linux ecosystem into one building block. Android intents to offer a more systematic and unified platform and with this, it was hoped that it also had a wanted result of tapping on a much wider programmer base.