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title: "What’s so special about Android?"  
description: "What’s so special about Android?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-11-09  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22892/what-s-so-special-about-android  
category: "android"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What’s so special about Android?

Unlike the proprietary iPhone operating system (now known as "iOS,"), which is under the complete control of Apple — and the same goes for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS or Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform — Google released Android as an open-source OS under the auspices of the Open Handset Alliance, leaving phone manufacturers (relatively) free to tweak Android as they see fit for a given handset.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Unlike the proprietary iPhone operating system (now known as "iOS,"), which is under the complete control of Apple — and the same goes for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS or Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform — Google released Android as an open-source OS under the auspices of the Open Handset Alliance, leaving phone manufacturers (relatively) free to tweak Android as they see fit for a given handset.


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