Android OS is an open source system, it can be used by any manufacturer of mobile terminals and not only, and this helped Google to promote it worldwide. Unfortunately, this status also brought a lot of headaches to those from Google, because the operating system has problems with malware, which in the last 6 months of this year has multiplied extremely quickly inside the Android ecosystem. Even so, some say that Android is not quite as free as Google wants us to believe, and the infographic below should put things into perspective. Comparing Android with iOS, Apple's operating system is closed from all points of view, but that ensured its success on the market.
Android ranks as the most closed project, with an Open Governance Index of 23%, yet at the same time is one of the most successful projects in the history of open source. Is Android proof that open governance is not needed to warrant success in an open source project?
