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From: Eric L	6/16/2014 11:49:22 PM
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Ars Technica: The History of Android: The endless iterations of Google’s mobile OS ... [a must read] Behind the 26 page story introductory paragraph ... [Note Ars subscribers can download a PDF version] >> Why documenting every Android version has become a logistical nightmare 7 phones, 700 screenshots: Behind the scenes of our Android history project. Ron Amadeo Ars Technica June 16 2014 arstechnica.com One of my most-visited Wikipedia articles is the "Android version history" page. It's great for a timeline of Android releases and bullet-point lists of features, but for me it's only really good as a reminder. If you haven't tried the early Android builds first-hand, it doesn't really give a good impression of what they were like. There are almost no pictures, no descriptions of how things work. The rest of the Web offers, at most, one- or two-paragraph overviews of each version and a single picture. That's about it. And for some reason, everyone ignores the early versions that came before Android 1.0. So I set out to do it myself—to create a detailed account of every version of Android. ...<Snip Rest> ... The 26 page article is here: arstechnica.com It's well done. ### - Eric L -

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