Android
Android (operating system)

context: zh_tw: 2005 年 7 月 11 日，Google 以高於 $5,000 萬美元的價錢收購了 Android 科技公司，使其成為 Google 旗下的一部分。Android 的關鍵人物包括安迪・魯賓、利奇・米納爾和克里斯・懷特，以及所有 Android 科技公司的員工都一併加入 Google，作為收購的一部分。當時並沒有人知道 Google 為何會作出這項收購，引來許多的猜測，後來證實 Google 正是藉助該次收購正式進入行動領域。根據前 Google CEO 施密特的說法，收購 Android 目的是抗衡微軟，試圖阻止微軟在移動市場複製桌面市場的成功。在 Google，由魯賓領導的團隊開發了一個基於 Linux 核心驅動的行動作業系統的平臺，該開發專案便是 Android 作業系統。Google 向手機制造商及手機網路供應商推出該平臺，承諾提供一個靈活可靠並可升級的系統，為 Android 提供一個廣闊的市場。Google 組織了一系列硬體及軟體的合作伙伴，並向運營商示意指公司開放到各種程度的合作。
en: Android Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, in October 2003 by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White. Rubin described the Android project as "tremendous potential in developing smarter mobile devices that are more aware of its owner's location and preferences". The early intentions of the company were to develop an advanced operating system for digital cameras, and this was the basis of its pitch to investors in April 2004. The company then decided that the market for cameras was not large enough for its goals, and by five months later it had diverted its efforts and was pitching Android as a handset operating system that would rival Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile.Rubin had difficulty attracting investors early on, and Android was facing eviction from its office space. Steve Perlman, a close friend of Rubin, brought him $10,000 in cash in an envelope, and shortly thereafter wired an undisclosed amount as seed funding. Perlman refused a stake in the company, and has stated "I did it because I believed in the thing, and I wanted to help Andy."In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million. Its key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, joined Google as part of the acquisition. Not much was known about the secretive Android at the time, with the company having provided few details other than that it was making software for mobile phones. At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the promise of providing a flexible, upgradeable system. Google had "lined up a series of hardware components and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation".Speculation about Google's intention to enter the mobile communications market continued to build through December 2006. An early prototype had a close resemblance to a BlackBerry phone, with no touchscreen and a physical QWERTY keyboard, but the arrival of 2007's Apple iPhone meant that Android "had to go back to the drawing board". Google later changed its Android specification documents to state that "Touchscreens will be supported", although "the Product was designed with the presence of discrete physical buttons as an assumption, therefore a touchscreen cannot completely replace physical buttons". By 2008, both Nokia and BlackBerry announced touch-based smartphones to rival the iPhone 3G, and Android's focus eventually switched to just touchscreens. The first commercially available smartphone running Android was the HTC Dream, also known as T-Mobile G1, announced on September 23, 2008.
qas: question: zh_tw: 與負責開發移動裝置平臺的團隊相關的公司是什麼？
en: What is the company associated with the team in charge of developing a mobile device platform?
answers: zh_tw: text: Google
en: text: Google