From the blog post: > But what does Android stand for? They don’t seem to have any coherent philosophy or aesthetic. Maybe you could argue that Android stands

From the blog post: > But what does Android stand for? They don’t seem to have any coherent philosophy or aesthetic. Maybe you could argue that Android stands for “openness.” I've been almost totally focused on Android since spring 2011. It's openness is what drew me in as a programmer. It's openness is also what drew manufacturers in as well. In its newer Android versions, Google added something called an ActionBar. While Google backports some things to older Android versions, they did not backport the ActionBar. A programmer named Jake Wharton dug in to the Google source code and did a back port of the ActionBar. Now 10% of installed apps use his third-party backport. Even the Facebook app ( http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/sherlock/actionbar-sherlock http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/details/sherlock/act... ). There is a cross-platform library called the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL). It is used by many commercial and open source games and applications. I ported two popular and pretty cool GPL games to Android that use it ( http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panaceasupplies.android.games.lilyhop http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panaceasupp... and http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panaceasupplies.android.games.math http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.panaceasupp... ). Apple's App Store doesn't allow apps licensed under the GPL, so those apps can't go onto the App Store. Only time will tell whether the "centralized and closed" or "decentralized and open" model will dominate. Both have advantages and disadvantages. IDC said in 2013 Q1, Android had 75% market share and iOS had 17.3% for worldwide smartphone shipments. For every iPhone shipped, over four Android phones shipped.