March to enterprise

In order for a product to be truly useful and productive it has to prove it’s mettle and serve efficiently the enterprise world. For a long time android has been growing as increasingly delicious for the general public with enhanced features, release after release. There was limited focus on security as the data exchange was not as sensitive.

Android lollipop is truly a cautious attempt to capture the attention of the corporate and enterprise world. It offers 64 bit chipset support which means it becomes more powerful and computationally effective. This is a major advancement as many a times battery consumption is not the limiting step. A part of the Consumer base wants portability but not at the cost of computational power. We have already heard about android enterprise boxes developed by Dell which weren’t as successful. However lollipop can turn the tables. 64 bit support also hints towards larger RAM sizes which were currently saturating towards 3 GB. How the chipset manufactures are going to squeeze into space such miniscule is yet to be seen but definately some one is going to come up with larger RAM sizes as the OS can support it. It is now not the limiting factor.

ART as a default runtime is also a great step. Device flash memory is now no longer a concern anymore. 32 and 64 GB of internal memory is now the mainstream as opposed to 8 and 16 GB a few years back. Using ART as the default runtime may result in the increase in overall installation size but the performance boost will be spectacular and impact on battery performance will be observable.

This is the beauty of Android. The way the operating system is maturing is jaw dropping. Project Volta claims to increase the battery life of nexus 5 by almost 90 minutes on the same usage.

The final dart in android’s quiver is that it’s open source and Linux based. People love open source and thus has been showcased by the ultrafast adoption and activation of Android products. The hunky playstore proves how easy the developers find it to develop apps for Android and also how much they love it. OEMs partnering with companies like cyanogenmod indicates how much seriously the platform is being taken and how much corporations are willing to invest in and trust it.

It has been an amazing journey so far and lollipop has high hopes already, paraphrasing Mr. Sundar Pichai - for the next billion people.