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Google. [23] Plus, Google pays Apple an estimated $3 billion per year just to
make Google Search the default search engine on iOS. [24] So you can see why
Google would prefer if people ran Google searches on Androids instead of
iPhones.
More Android users equals more money for Google, so it’s no surprise
Google is giving away Android for free.
Why open-source?
Android isn’t just free — it’s also open-source, [25] meaning that anyone can
make and distribute their own spin-offs of Android. [26] There’s a vibrant
community of developers making custom “flavors” of Android, like the
popular LineageOS (formerly known as CyanogenMod). [27] You can replace
your phone’s Android operating system with LineageOS to get improved
speed, security, and features. [28]
Android is literally open-source to the core; it’s built around the “kernel” of
the open-source operating system Linux, which is also used in some of the
world’s biggest supercomputers. [29] The kernel is a bit of software that lets
software talk to the device’s hardware, like by reading and writing files,
connecting to the keyboard and Wi-Fi, and so on. [30] A kernel is like a car’s
engine: the computer literally wouldn’t run without a kernel. Using this prebuilt,
open-source kernel saves Android developers a lot of work, [31] since the
Linux developers have been constantly improving their kernel since 1991. [32]
And Linux works on an incredible range of devices, from supercomputers to
video game consoles, [33] so by adopting Linux, Android automatically
became able to run on a vast variety of hardware.
Anyway, why did Google make Android open-source? For one, because
Android is open source, phone manufacturers get to customize the interface,
which helps their phones stand out. [34] That’s a good incentive for phone
makers to pick Android over another operating system.
Second, making Android open-source brings more people into the Android
and Google ecosystem. [35] Since Android is open-source, people who want to