Smartphones, tablets, computers, watches, televisions, snap to TVs or even cars – the number of products in which we find Android or one of its variants seem to exceed any allowable limits. But if anyone thought it was the end of the ambitions of Google, definitely underestimated the company from Mountain View.
What was missing in the list above are supported by Android equipment ? The smallest ones and those which until recently not identified the rather connecting to the Internet. And while those whom from month to month (or maybe every year) will be louder.
Of course, for quite some time trying to cram Android where not really fit in the current version. Refrigerators with Android? They were. Cookers or ovens with Android? Also they were. All this, however, were rather isolated cases, experiments that did not end in rather too much success. The reason was quite simple – no financial or any other justification, to push in a simple household appliances to be simply connected to the network and only partially “intelligent” quad-core processors and gigabytes of RAM.
Speaking directly, smartphones or tools pharmaceutical requirements were simply too expensive to introduce them to other equipment. In cars, with their already high prices, any increase purchase cost could still survive. Here – not necessarily.
In some cases, it just was not where cram the entire fixture needed to run even the simplest version of Android. Even some elements of the so-called. “Smart home” must be small so as not differ significantly from their analog counterparts. It was necessary to create another solution, especially since, and Apple in this matter is not idle, but goes to the whole issue from a different side.
Google However, in order to create a 100% androidowy IoT ecosystem have to decide on more serious movement . It was, if you believe reports in given by The Information (for ArsTechnica) is a project currently operating under the name Brillo, which premiered can take place already in the next few days, during a conference I / O.
What exactly is to be Brillo, or – if it comes to the expected change in the name – the new version of Android? Nothing other than the Google system cut all unnecessary in this case, additives, shrunken to a degree, when he can smoothly operate on a much less efficient outfits. Even mentions that apart from a moderately powerful processor would be required only 32 or 64 MB of RAM.
This, in turn, coupled with support for the most essential needs “smart-devices” would open the way to the world IoT Android and all the gadgets associated with it. Currently, each manufacturer is trying to create their own, more or less advanced platform, trying later to ensure its compliance with the controls (which very often are presently tablets and smartphones). The introduction of a miniature Android certainly facilitate the process of creating such equipment, lowered the cost of entry into this market (and therefore the final cost of the equipment to the customer) and at least a little ustandaryzowało a whole.
Who knows if there would be Brillo market IoT thus, what for Android smartphones and tablets.
The more that according to recent reports, this has to be made available to manufacturers for free. All manufacturers are certainly aware of how much money will go to, who manages to create an early enough interesting offer. For the time being, although some customers rather dim view of such toys as “intelligent coffee” or controlled home automation smartphone, but over time we get used to them, just as accustomed to smartphones and a few years time we will not imagine other solutions.
The only thing that can make us tremble is that if Brillo actually goes in this form on the market and – more importantly – will take up on it as well as smartfonowy Android, Google quietly will go to the next equipments, which until now they were beyond his reach.
And then joke about the fear of opening the fridge, because probably there lurks Android, cease to be funny. He’s just going to be there and it will be just as obvious as the Android phone, tablet, watch, car, or … basically everywhere.
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