Android to become ubiquitous

Over the years, many electronic goods manufacturers have attempted to integrate some intelligence into their designs, and create appliances that can communicate with us. Several manufacturers have built fridges, toasters, and washing machines with computers that can report on low food supplies, temperature, and other metrics. Some have promised to learn from the user, and adapt themselves to their preferences. Some of these devices may have been very good, but none of them have really caught on, as they couldn't really connect to other devices, or the internet in any meaningful way.
Enter Android - the operating system from google, built on linux, designed to support low power usage, and devices without much in the way of memory. Coupled with RISC based ARM processors, Android has been an amazing success in the mobile phone market, and has now overtaken iOS as the most popular mobile operating system. Some manufacturers are cottoning on to the idea that Android can be used in home appliances as a ready made platform for communication, and intelligent apps. It seems like a winning idea to me - it has all of the communication protocols needed, built in, and apps can be built very cheaply in Java.
Hopefully soon, we will see washing machines that alert you by email that your washing is done, or microwaves that can show the progress of your meal on your TV.  It will be great to remotely control any of your home devices via the internet, so you can set your lighting and heating to come on just before you get home from work- perhaps when we finally have vehicle based networking, we will be able to set your cooker to warm up when you are a mile from home each day. The options are endless, and if these devices are kept open, we will be able to write our own apps for them, and download new apps and updates at any time.
Now all I need is my jet pack...