The success of Android

The popularity of Android devices is to be attributed to freedom of choice and diversification. This was stated by Hiroshi Lockheimer, the Senior Vice President of Google, who in an interview given to LaStampa on the occasion of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona said:  «With Android a developer can create an app that immediately ends up on more of a billion devices. But at the same time smartphone manufacturers have more freedom and can offer different features on their products.""

In a historical moment in which smartphones have the same technical characteristics, it is the software that makes the difference. In fact, the Big G veteran believes that experimenting with an open source operating system was the key to simplifying the lives of application developers. Specifically, with Android, Google developers have solved many testing problems. The presence of a single platform, as Lockheimer himself exemplifies, allows you to test an app like Maps on a single operating system, facilitating the procedures.

This year's trend and which will continue to grow is that of relying on artificial intelligences and on those who think they make it more efficient. stupid Lockheimer replies that they are the technological equivalent of a tool: «A screwdriver makes us more weak because don't we screw the screws with our hands? &` the same type of enhancement: artificial intelligence does not limit our abilities but it expands them. An example: the artificial intelligence algorithms that we use for advanced software analysis have made it possible to optimize battery use that we will launch in the next version of Android.""

Another trend that is increasingly becoming part of everyday life is the Internet of Things, specifically products that communicate with each other and not only via apps for smartphones and tablets, butelectronic products will no longer be just of small units isolated, he explains, but they will be able to exchange information in real time to work better.

And what about the future? «Simplification, optimization, improvement, modernization».