page led the acquisition of android for $ million in  to fulfill his ambition to place handheld computers in the possession of consumers so that they could access google from anywhere the purchase was made without schmidts knowledge but the ceo was not perturbed by the relatively small acquisition page became passionate about android and spent large amounts of time with android ceo and cofounder andy rubin by september  t-mobile launched the g the first phone using android software and by   percent of the handset market consisted of android sales overtaking apple for the first time android became the world’s most popular mobile operating system shortly afterward