Android is Google’s Agent Smith

Smith began as an agent, an AI program in the Matrix destined to keep order within the system by terminating troublesome programs and humans, which would otherwise bring instability to the simulated reality. Smith is significantly more open from the start, seeming far more intelligent, adaptable and destructive than other agents. At the end of the first Matrix movie, Smith appears to have been destroyed by Neo, but he makes a calculated return with somewhat altered motivations and abilities. The Matrix has lost control of Smith – he can no longer be forcibly sent to the system source to be deleted. This process makes him into a renegade program with the ability to make uncontrolled and non-conforming copies of himself, rather than simply having the ability to switch between bodies, as normal agents are able to. Smith is now threatening the very stability of the Matrix…

When Andy Rubin, co-founder and former CEO of Android named Google’s mobile OS, little did he know that his very own Android would – like Agent Smith – become a renegade program...

Google’s motivation behind Android is a very controversial topic, but we can all agree that behind the simulated reality of “free-for-all openness”, lies a calculated set of control points to bring to the masses a platform that would extend the reach of Google’s main source of revenue: advertising. At first glance, it looks like Android is doing a pretty good job at that. Google made plenty of partners (both carriers and handset makers) and acquired a very strong developer support. Armies of Android-powered or Android-based devices of all shapes and sizes hit the market every day. At its base, Android is a customizable low-level operating system that is perfectly suited for embedded devices. It has built-in support for networking and familiar user tools that can easily be integrated into a higher-level application ecosystem. With Google’s acquisition of Admob, the mobile-ad sales market is growing faster than anything we’ve ever seen. A new report from analyst firm Piper Jaffray even suggests that in the long run, Android is going to be the OS running on around 50% of the Smartphone market. So it seems all is going as planned for Google? Not quite…


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