The Android Operating system is now a widely used Open source operating system in mobile market as well as in tablet PCs. When it was first released on September 20, 2008, it is specially developed to support mobile or some portable platform. But then slowly it started appearing in some Desktop also but still now it is a most popular OS in Smartphone and Tablet PC. It gains 70% of the world’s mobile market. Some of the major manufacturers of Android phones are Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony Ericsson etc. Even having such popularity to Android, Why Google made this OS as an Open source? Google is a creator of Android and has been upgrading it to newer version till now. The latest one and presently running is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Is there any particular reason behind this?
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