Android's Andy Rubin: the ultimate opensource developer executive

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stevep2007

13 years ago

Android’s overtaking of Apple iOS was a sign that both Android and the smart mobile device market at large were maturing; a change in the status of Google’s Android business, as a result, would be imminent.

Android is not yet making a lot of money for Google. But it has produced a much more important result than profits, at least for now: Rubin checkmated Apple with Android, preventing Apple’s dominance of the mobile search market that is so critical to Google’s future. Rubin’s achievements - 1.5 million Android activations per day, 750 million Android activations, more than 25 billion apps downloads - are enviable by Apple’s, Microsoft and BlackBerry’s standards.