Android has been with us in one form or another for more than six years. During that time, we've seen an absolutely breathtaking rate of change unlike any other development cycle that has ever existed. When it came time for Google to dive in to the smartphone wars, the company took its rapid-iteration, Web-style update cycle and applied it to an operating system, and the result has been an onslaught of continual improvement. Lately, Android has even been running on a previously unheard of six-month development cycle, and that's slower than it used to be. For the first year of Android’s commercial existence, Google was putting out a new version every two-and-a-half months.In the video clip below you can see the public demonstration of the first version of Android back in November 2007:
A guide through Android from version 0.5 to 4.4
Posted on Tuesday, June 17 2014 @ 13:05 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckARS Technica takes you on a trip through the history of Google's Android operating system, you can check it out over here.
