The tech giant Google’s Android operating system is the world’s most used and popular mobile operating system, but have you ever wonder about some crucial and most talked topics about Android? Here are they, “Android was created by Google”, “Android is not a secure platform” and “Android phones have a little vent in the second hand” these are, by far, three of the most repeated biggest myths about Android.
But as often as these statements are repeated, that does not mean that they are purely and simply myths that are far removed from reality.
Some of these myths are easily rebuffed, but others require a great deal of patience to bring to light the truth behind them. Many of the myths, even, continue to generate discussions among the followers of this operating system. In any case, all this is part of the already bulky list of Android myths.
So easy to come across these myths on the net that we have decided to compile no less than 7 of the most repeated myths about Android. We have decided to include everything from wrong data on the origin of this operating system to habits of use of the mobile that end up being more harmful than beneficial.
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1. “Android was created by Google”, Lie
It is perhaps the myth that less people recognize at first sight. We all relate Android to Google, and we just do not imagine the one without the other. In fact, the logical thing would be to think that this mobile operating system was born in the colorful offices of Mountain View. But the story says something very different.
Android was not born in Google’s offices. The world’s most popular operating system was the work of Android Inc., a small software development company operating at the headquarters of what was once – and still is – the epicenter of the consumer technology boom: Palo Alto, California (United States).
2. “Android is not safe”, Lie
Rare but it is not hearable every week, as some people claim that Android is not a safe operating system. These people compare it with iOS and ensure that Google’s mobile operating system has so many security vulnerabilities that it poses a threat to users.
The reality is quite different. Android itself is a secure system, and you should not be fooled by any security flaws that are discovered in some versions. In Android 7.0 Nougat have been corrected the vast majority of vulnerabilities that have been discovered in recent years, and anyone who has a phone with this version – or even with Android 6.0 Marshmallow, another version also quite armored – can be completely calm.
3. “For less than 150 dollars you can not buy any decent mobile”, Lie
Much has changed things since the years 2012 or 2013 in the Android market. Before it is true that it was difficult to find a decent phone without spending more than 150 or 200 dollars, but right now there are very interesting alternatives for less than 150 dollars are available.
The entry of new manufacturers into the mobile market has meant that the average price has plummeted in a matter of a few years. It is true that to find a mobile that offers something more than the basics you have to dedicate 150, 200 or 250 dollars, but each of those dollars now turns into a device with features light years of what mobile phones of those same price years ago.
4. “Android is worth nothing in the second hand”, Lie
It is customary to listen to people complaining that their Android phone has lost much value in the second-hand market, and some directly claim that it compensates them more to leave it in the drawer than to sell it after a year of use.
While it is difficult to sell an Android device in reasonable price that has cost 150, 250 or 300 euros, in the high range the situation of the purchase/sale is very different. A Samsung Galaxy S7 that costs us about 534 dollars on Amazon we can then sell it perfectly for 400 or 450 dollars on a page of second-hand products. We lose money in the operation, of course, but it’s still a very reasonable selling price.
The important thing is to make the sale in the first year of life of the phone. From there, the value of the mobile will start to plummet in the market of the second hand for the simple reason that terminals with Android usually receive major renovations for every two or three years. And that not to mention the alternatives that in that period of time have launched to right and sinister the manufacturers of the competition.
Flagships sell well in buying/selling used products, but it is true that time is a factor that plays very against Android phones.
5. “Best apps come first to iOS”, Lie
They say the bad language that Android is a second operating system in terms of launching new applications is concerned. First is the App Store, and second, comes Google Play.
That, to begin with, meets head-on with the quota figures of each operating system that are handled on the mobiles. In India, more than 90% of the phones that are sold each quarter correspond to terminals with Android operating system. If an application wants to have maximum popularity, its launch in the Google Play store is an essential requirement.
It is true that cases of applications arriving first at iOS and then after a few weeks, landed in Android are given; many applications never even reach the Google Play store. But it comes to specific cases, and developers are primarily interested in your application available in more the better platforms.
6. “On Android, you are required to use Google applications,” Lie
Following in the line of the myths about the applications in Android, another affirmation also very repeated is that in this operating system it is necessary to use yes, the applications and services of the tech giant Google. Or you agree to use Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Photos, or you will not be able to take advantage of your mobile … say the critical voices.
Although all Android phones must necessarily bring the Google applications pre-installed on the system (and the European Commission has already accused Google of monopoly for it ), that does not mean by no means that it is necessary to use the applications of Google for all tasks. Not for all or for a single task, in short.
If you do not like Gmail, you can turn to Outlook or Yahoo Mail (although perhaps the latter would not be so advisable … ); if you do not convince with Chrome, there you have Firefox, Opera and many other alternative browsers; and so with any application that comes pre-installed on your mobile.
In short, the obligation to use Google apps on a mobile with Android there is none at all.
7. “Android is very complicated”, Lie
The excuse accustomed to using an iPhone users not to switch to Android, even if they are attracted to the design of mobile phones like Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, Huawei P9 or Google Pixel itself, is that Android is very complicated.
These people make their claim with the iOS interface in mind: a single main screen in which only the icons of the applications appear, without widgets or additions of any kind plugins. It is true that going from iOS to Android requires getting used to a different interface, but from there to make it more complicated there is the world away.
Android is not complicated. For years, versions such as Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat have a standard interface design that is very easy to adapt regardless of the operating system from which it is appropriate. Maybe Android 4.2 Jelly Bean out of everything less friendly, but time has completely dismantled the myths that Android is difficult to use.
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