2008 – 2018retired
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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
Android Lollipop was the fifth major version of Google's mobile operating system, unveiled at Google I/O on June 25, 2014 and rolled out over the air on November 12 of that year. It arrived with Material Design, a paper-like redesign that made Android feel fresh and thoughtful, plus lock-screen notifications and banners that changed how people used their phones every day. The Nexus 6 was the first phone to carry it,
Lollipop was retired in 2018, not cut down in its prime — a natural end for a version that had already done its job. Its source code went public on November 3, 2014, and its ideas lived on long after the updates stopped. Material Design in particular became part of Android's DNA, so in a real sense Lollipop never fully left; it just stopped taking up space in the version list.
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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“Fifteen thousand subtitled stories, one final subtitle: The End.”
“It lived, it lived again, and its photos lived too.”