What according to me is the best thing done by Google?
Shubham Devikar
Author
April 13, 2014
Google is one of the biggest tech corporations in the world. Its contribution to tech is immense. The likes of Google Search, YouTube, Gmail, AdSense are so popular that it is hard to believe that one company did it all. But the best thing done by Google was acquiring Android Inc. and the development of Android OS. Period!
The reason for such a strong opinion is the significance of Android devices in the lives of people all around the world. Android has transformed the way of living! It has changed the way how we work, how we communicate with people, how we spend our idle time. To some degree, it has replaced the ever important PCs and Laptops.
People used to do their work in their offices and lug a laptop around when away from workspace. But the ability of Android phones to do some of the office work like handling emails, spreadsheets, notes, stock market, video calls etc makes it very easy to stay connected to work even on the go. There are apps for nearly everything and custom apps can be made that suits the work. Restaurants, Hotels, Online shopping, Tours and travels and every business that sells (anything, Product or Service!) is making their Android app and publishing it on the Play store. The credit for mobile application goes to Apple, but in India, Android made them popular and within the grasp of common people. Apple caters to a very specific group of audience (one with the moolah!). Android caters everyone from a high end phone buyer to not-so high end phone buyer.
Haven’t you wasted a number of hours playing temple run or subway surfers on your Android phone? While travelling in the metro or the bus, while watching those boring saans-bahu serials with family when they don’t let you touch the remote or just in those moments when you don’t feel like do anything and just play your games! Move aside PC gaming and Console gaming, Mobile gaming is here!
Then the tablets arrived to the party! Again, the credit goes to Apple with their revolutionary iPad (no pun, truly revolutionary! ). Even though the iPads were awesome and drool worthy they were out of the reach of an average Joe like me. Android brought the tablets to the masses. It is useful for everything that can use more screen real estate than a phone like eBooks, browsing, gaming, movies. Tablet sales will soon overtake PC and Laptop sales despite the technology being nascent.
To understand the importance of Android let’s take a quick look at few of the major things that Google invented:
AdSense: Google AdSense is a program that allows website owners to gain revenue by publishing advertisements on their website. The earnings are based on the number of clicks on the published Ads. Website owners don’t have to find the advertiser themselves and just concentrate on the content of their website. This saves them a lot of hassle. AdSense also proved to be a major source of revenue for Google.
Google Search Engine: Google.com is the most used search engine in the World. It processes more than 3 billion searches in a day. The word Google is added in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. This speaks a lot about its popularity. The first thing that comes to the mind when we want to search some data is to use Google search engine.
Google Mail: Google mail is not the only email service that is available on the internet. But the sheer number of users makes it very significant. It contains other Google services like Google chat, Contacts and Video Chat.
Google Maps: Just like Gmail, Gmaps is very popular. It provides navigation and latitude services.
The true value of Android OS lies in the fact that it incorporates all other innovations of Google. It serves as a platform for other services. Google Search, Maps and Mail are widely used on Android devices. Android does its own thing and promotes other Google services too! Android encapsulates all the Google services in one unit. And that unit is used in millions of phones worldwide!
The best innovation is the one which changes lives! Life before and after Android is very different. So Android is indeed the best innovation by Google.
The reason for such a strong opinion is the significance of Android devices in the lives of people all around the world. Android has transformed the way of living! It has changed the way how we work, how we communicate with people, how we spend our idle time. To some degree, it has replaced the ever important PCs and Laptops.
People used to do their work in their offices and lug a laptop around when away from workspace. But the ability of Android phones to do some of the office work like handling emails, spreadsheets, notes, stock market, video calls etc makes it very easy to stay connected to work even on the go. There are apps for nearly everything and custom apps can be made that suits the work. Restaurants, Hotels, Online shopping, Tours and travels and every business that sells (anything, Product or Service!) is making their Android app and publishing it on the Play store. The credit for mobile application goes to Apple, but in India, Android made them popular and within the grasp of common people. Apple caters to a very specific group of audience (one with the moolah!). Android caters everyone from a high end phone buyer to not-so high end phone buyer.
Haven’t you wasted a number of hours playing temple run or subway surfers on your Android phone? While travelling in the metro or the bus, while watching those boring saans-bahu serials with family when they don’t let you touch the remote or just in those moments when you don’t feel like do anything and just play your games! Move aside PC gaming and Console gaming, Mobile gaming is here!
Then the tablets arrived to the party! Again, the credit goes to Apple with their revolutionary iPad (no pun, truly revolutionary! ). Even though the iPads were awesome and drool worthy they were out of the reach of an average Joe like me. Android brought the tablets to the masses. It is useful for everything that can use more screen real estate than a phone like eBooks, browsing, gaming, movies. Tablet sales will soon overtake PC and Laptop sales despite the technology being nascent.
To understand the importance of Android let’s take a quick look at few of the major things that Google invented:
AdSense: Google AdSense is a program that allows website owners to gain revenue by publishing advertisements on their website. The earnings are based on the number of clicks on the published Ads. Website owners don’t have to find the advertiser themselves and just concentrate on the content of their website. This saves them a lot of hassle. AdSense also proved to be a major source of revenue for Google.
Google Search Engine: Google.com is the most used search engine in the World. It processes more than 3 billion searches in a day. The word Google is added in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. This speaks a lot about its popularity. The first thing that comes to the mind when we want to search some data is to use Google search engine.
Google Mail: Google mail is not the only email service that is available on the internet. But the sheer number of users makes it very significant. It contains other Google services like Google chat, Contacts and Video Chat.
Google Maps: Just like Gmail, Gmaps is very popular. It provides navigation and latitude services.
The true value of Android OS lies in the fact that it incorporates all other innovations of Google. It serves as a platform for other services. Google Search, Maps and Mail are widely used on Android devices. Android does its own thing and promotes other Google services too! Android encapsulates all the Google services in one unit. And that unit is used in millions of phones worldwide!
The best innovation is the one which changes lives! Life before and after Android is very different. So Android is indeed the best innovation by Google.