Will Google’s next Android OS be Neyappam? It’s up to you!
27 May 2016
Google has launched a website to crowd-source names for the next Android N operating system (OS). The only limitation to the suggestions is that it has to be the name of a sweet, since all the previous names have been deserts.
While Apple Pie was the name for the first Android OS, the latest ones have had names such as Marshmallow, Kitkat and Lollipop.
On his visit to India last year, chief executive Sundar Pichai said the company might accept public suggestions for the next version of Android when asked why one of them didn't have an Indian name.
Now a Bangalore-based app developer, Arun Kumar, is trying to get that done by suggesting that Indians to lobby for Android Neyyappam as the name for Google's upcoming smartphone OS.
Even a website and Twitter handle have been set up to get the same done.
The name suggestions window closes at 12:29 pm 9 June and Google will have the last say on the final name, so there's no certainty that the voting number will set the name for the next flavour of Android. But for those fond of the south Indian dish, why not give it a go!
