Top 45 Android Quotes

As the Kindle’s dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.

If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you’ll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you’re basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

We’re excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It’s a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it’s truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we’ve always supported other partners.

Overall, there isn’t much difference between a high-end Android and iOS phone, despite the fact that Android is a knockoff of iOS.

I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on iOS and Android. And what I would like to highlight with that one is the speed that we actually turned that around and brought it out the door.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so, if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.

First, we want to have a direct relationship with our customers wherever we can. On open platforms like PC and Android, it’s possible for them to get the software direct from us. We can be in contact with them and not have a third-party distributor in between.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.

I spend my weekends with my Android phone in an elastic band that has tied to my Android phone my driver’s license and my credit card. That’s how I live. I’m not carrying a wallet anymore. Like, a wallet is a medieval item, right?

Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go.

I think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

With ‘Godus,’ we did Steam Early Access, Android, and iOS. It was quite a rocky road going through all those hoops.

Cyanogen has done an interesting job with their version of Android – the Cyanogenmod. And they’re on 50-million-plus devices. And that’s just another ecosystem that we wanted to tap into and to bring our Office apps to.

Many Android users aren’t aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.

One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

I’m happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

Android phones in China are more ‘Android open source’ rather than Android in the way we are all used to here. So a lot of phones don’t have Google Play, etc.

Android’s user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.

You’re going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

The interesting thing about Android’s design is how little we modified the kernel.

Early on, Android phones were pitched as kind of ersatz iPhones, devices that could do most of what an iPhone did – but were available on carriers other than AT&T, a relatively horrible network that was the biggest source of complaints about Apple’s transformative device.

At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don’t make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them.

I’m carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It’s been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device… I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle… Yeah, I have a lot of devices.

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

Oracle v. Google is a vast, sprawling piece of litigation over the Android platform, one where the billions of dollars at stake were the least-significant possible consequence of the lawsuit.

As an open system, Android is not under the tight control of its creator, Google.

Trump’s real Achilles heel, and the thing most likely to keep him out of the White House, is his brazen contempt for women (plus his lack of impulse control and inability to stay off his Android phone).

Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!’s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone, and the experience isn’t as good as an iPhone.

We’re excited to bring the expansive world of Roblox to Android users around the world.

2019 was a distinctive year in my career. While I was lucky to get a variety of roles, one that I found interesting to do was ‘Android Kunjappan Version 5.25.’

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.

We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.

If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it’s actually quite a large market.

When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.

It’s been a bit sad to see that out of Linux distributions, it was Android – the most successful mobile Linux distribution – that has really introduced the malware problem to the Linux world.

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design – Gecko’s homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie’s ‘android’ C-3PO.