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HOW DID ANDROID CHANGE MOBILE DEVICE ENGINEERING INDUSTRY

FOREVER

BEFORE ANDROID

1. Multitude of Feature Phone platforms • Symbian, BREW, Windows Phone etc.

2. Bringing out a phone program included a complex phase of building the phone software using one of these frameworks

3. Building an UI used to be quite a task. 4. Niche Developers were tough to find and difficult to

retain as they were high in demand.

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AFTER ANDROID

1. Drawing Phone UI become cakewalk2. Basic features of a phone started coming bundled

with the Operating System itself3. Android Application layer was java-like, helping build

up developer ecosystem faster4. Being a complete open source program, opened up

opportunity for Device driver engineers5. Overall time-to-market for a phone program got

reduced to large extent

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 3RD PARTY RND SERVICE INDUSTRY?

1. Reduced size of phone programs2. Change in skillset, change in bench strength3. New issues (like Power/Battery etc.) • Money on the table, but not enough skilled resources

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LEARNING

• Quartz watch changed the whole wristwatch industry. • The Swiss watchmakers continued with the mechanical models • Japanese counterparts adopted the new technology• Swiss watchmakers were left behind though they were the

masters

• Mobile Industry has gone through similar change in the last 5 years• Device Engineering industry has reduced a lot

Bottomline: If you don’t Change, you may Perish.

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KEEP LEARNING AND GET RESKILLED EVERY DAY.

BEYOND PPT

• Read the full blog piece in LinkedIn:• https://

www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140705181714-5022498-how-did-android-change-the-mobile-device-engineering-business

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