Google's Android in numbers

Here are key dates and figures behind Alphabet-owned Google's Android operating software, a computing phenomenon that runs the vast majority of smartphones sold across the world.
1.16 BILLION
The number of smartphones shipped in 2015 that are powered by Android, according to research group Gartner. That accounts for 82 percent of the market, dwarfing the 225.85 million for Apple's iOS.
1.37 BILLION
The number of smartphones expected to be shipped in 2017 with Android operating software, according to Gartner predictions. That would be 84 percent of the world market.
$74.9 BILLION
Revenue in 2015 for Google parent Alphabet. The same year, Alphabet posted a net profit of $15.8 billion.
2005
The year Google quietly purchases Android Inc, a start-up company co-founded two years earlier by former Apple engineer Andy Rubin to write software for mobile phones. "We are thrilled to have them here," a Google spokesman told BusinessWeek Online at the time.