Why Android? : Equality of applications
In this series of articles we will be exploring why Android is considered to be future of mobile platforms.
One of the most important reason is All Android applications are equal. Android platform is developed as set of applications. You have a core engine which runs all these applications. The core engine is essentially a virtual machine which provides APIs to communicate with hardware resources to applications.
Apart from this core engine/virtual machine everything else in Android is an application. So user can replace the default dialer software with some other customized one. You can change how your home window is displayed. You can replace absolutely any application installed on your phone.
From developer perspective, this opens up a whole new range of applications that you can build. It was not possible to this before Android. Most of the other mobile platforms come with set of applications which are hardwired into the system and can not be replaced. With Android, change is here. You do not have to live with boring applications any more.