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Re:What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly? by cturner on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @02:16PM (#4138311)
I'm surprised by the large Android figures there. For a time OSX became the most widely distributed unix-like consumer system and that was exciting. But despite a strong play, it's being overtaken by android. Looking at these numbers, if I was starting a consulting business at the moment I'd be tempted to focus at android.
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Re:What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly? by njharman on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @03:37PM (#4138733)
Fractured, commodity market, lots of competition, lots of dead ends (failed devices, companies)

Vs

Unified, Premium market, no hordes of java devs jumping bandwagon, less porting, less chance of backing loser.

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Re:What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly? by adventureful on Thursday June 21, 2012 @07:03AM (#4141347)
Tell Samsung Android is a dead end. They're generating extraordinary profits off of Android right now.
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Re:What Happened to the Microsoft Monopoly? by adventureful on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @02:22PM (#4138345)
900,000 Android device activations per day

Seems likely that the Android party will continue to be a big fractured mess, but at that kind of scale there's always opportunity.

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