Google loves to tease fans and spectators with clues about when it's releasing its new products, and there have been a couple of rival release date theories spawning out of Google Kit Kat's teaser images. However, there can only be one, and it looks like Oct. 28 is winning the day.
The Countdown Theory
The other, now losing, theory was still quite clever, and it worked for a while.
The best explication of the countdown theory comes from Droid-Life, which put together all of the KitKat teaser images into a pretty sound idea: each KitKat image is actually a number, counting down the days until Google unveils Android 4.4 KitKat, and perhaps its accompanying hardware, the Google Nexus 5.
And so you have the "007" Android Kit Kat teaser posted on its Google plus page on Oct. 14, indicating the release date would be 7 days away, on Oct. 21.
Then, the next day, Google tweeted a dancing Android KitKat teaser that had 6 bars of KitKat in the Android's body.
Then a "This is it" teaser shaped out of KitKat pieces, where the "s" in "this" and "is" indicated a 5.
The next day, Google Posted a mention of KitKat 4.4 with the standard 4 bars - indicating it was 4 days away.
You get the point.
However, going by this theory, the next day's Android KitKat teaser should have 3 bars (or otherwise indicate the number 3). But here it is (Google Plus via Reddit):
Judging from the number of KitKat bars in this teaser, we've got a long way to go.
The Other Theory
Most have put their weight behind the other release date theory, stating that the release date will be on October 28.
This theory points out that the "Dancing Android" spotted on Oct. 15 was accompanied by the tweet "Everybody Dance Now."
Everybody dance now! #AndroidKITKAT pic.twitter.com/KBNs6laGDc
— KITKAT (@KITKAT) October 15, 2013
That's a reference to C+C Music Factory's song. That band was originally known, according to 9to5Google, as "The 28th Street Crew."
And the "This is it" teaser? Was that a reference to the number 5?
Doubtful.
The more obvious reference would be to the Michael Jackson concert movie that was released on October 28.
So it looks like Android 4.4 KitKat will probably be unveiled on October 28 - which also makes it pretty close to Halloween, a delicious candy-themed coincidence.
Why Google would want to associate its new Android operating system release with Michael Jackson? Now there's a new puzzle.
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