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Rubin was there at the birth of Android before Google bought  out his company in 2005, and before that he helped create the T-Mobile Sidekick, an early example of the modern brand of leisure- rather than business-focussed smartphones.

This is a man with a vision. Rubin is an enthusiastic advocate of Android’s “openness” compared to, well, you know who. His advance through the dictionary of confectionary – each new version of Android is named after a dessert beginning with the next letter in the alphabet, from Cupcake to Doughnut to Éclair –  has seen Android race past iOS in terms of users. Next target: BlackBerry.