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Did Google call the Android platform, 'Android' by accident, or did they foresee smart phones being the start of the merging of human and...

At the end of last year there were 700,000 Androids being activated every day. Compared to humans being born each day, we only average 300,000 and the number is dropping. Although it's a pun based on Google's smartphone brand name, it got me thinking. Why did Google decide to name its mobile platform 'Android'?. Smart phones will soon be monitoring our health real time as they currently do with fitness activities. Beyond this, interacting with and changing our biology for the better is the next logical step and the whole time, the smart phone is the hub that enables it all to happen.

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  • Steve C

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    Jul 15 2012: Not foreseen, "foreplanned" by many non-related, interconnected organizations.

  • Christopher Stalnaker

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    Jul 9 2012: Android is more than a platform...it is an operating system. Google does nothing by accident. Android will take over...the desktop...laptop will become a thing of the past...Windows included.
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    Jun 16 2012: I Googled it ! and came up with this explanation somewhere.
    Google is not the founder of Android, In the year 2005,Google purchased "Android " from its initial developer, Android Inc., Hence Google named the software "Android".
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    Jun 16 2012: It's an interesting point you have got there. cellphones and portable imformation processing devices are considered an extension of human mind because they partly perform our memory and processing functionalities and in that sense it is possible however I doubt that Google named it with such philosophy in mind. and they may be glad that you are interpreting it that way ...
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