Android's rise is fairly remarkable for an operating system that only just launched in the fall of 2007. The open-source operating system's success is even more impressive when you consider that when it debuted it was already facing a crowded field of OS heavyweights such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196391/how_android_phones_became_a_hit.html -- Tony Cooke www.tonycooke.co.uk contactable at tony.j.cookeATgooglemailDOTcom It is better to have loved and lost, than to have hated and won
