Android evolved into what it is today thanks to a former Apple employee named Andy Rubin, he being the man who managed to transform an operating system, originally designed for cameras, in the most used operating system for mobile terminals. Those from Google they initially thought Androidas an operating system for smart cameras, allowing users to connect cameras to computers much more easily, but Google's plans changed as interest in cameras declined and interest in smartphones grew exponentially .
The creators of Android originally dreamed it would be used to create a world of "smart cameras" that connected to PCs, a founder said, but it was reworked for mobile handsets as the smartphone market began to explode. "The exact same platform, the exact same operating system we built for cameras, that became Android for cellphones," said Android co-founder Andy Rubin, who spoke at an economic summit in Tokyo.
Starting in 2005, Google started hiring people from companies like T-Mobile or Orange to develop Android into an operating system dedicated to smartphones, and the idea turned out to be a successful one. The interesting part is that the core of the operating system originally developed for cameras remained the same when it was decided to transition to smartphones, a sign that Google did not have that many changes to make in order to be successful.
