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seems like Google’s got their hands in just about everything these days. They of course have the Google search engine itself, along with such things as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Ads, and so much more. For a company that began as a search engine in 1996, very few people would have predicted they’d be so successful that their very brand name would become a verb that is now a large part of the average person’s daily vocabulary. Don’t believe me? Just “google” it. This huge success has been due, in large part, to their apparent ability to consistently “build a better mousetrap.” In fact, even the very search engine that started it all is proof of this. They innovated with an all-new form of search engine that was immensely more efficient than what their competitors were doing, and since then, they’ve continued to prove that they can be a serious competitor in any field they choose to enter.
Among the many fields they’ve entered is the smartphone industry. Dominated largely by the runaway success of Apple’s iPhone hardware and it’s iOS operating system, Google’s entry of the Android OS operating system (and more recently, their Nexus One hardware, a phone developed by Google themselves in conjunction with HTC) is quickly gaining a lot of ground against their competitors, thanks in large part to the applications (or “apps”) they’re able to offer in their quickly growing Android Market store. This is partly because they are committed to providing an open platform for third party developers, but it doesn’t hurt that Google also has an in-house software development team (“Google Labs”) to provide some of their very own apps. Many of these are either available only for Android phones, or at the very least are unable to perform key features on other smartphones. In this article, I’m going to focus on some of the best examples of those exclusive or at least partially exclusive Android apps made by Google. In short, the following is five of the best reasons to purchase an Android, for anyone still on the fence.
