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> and now look who's running the market just a short time later.

Can we stop with the "market share" talk? No one is "running" the smartphone market. What is this, Engadget?

Android benefits from mass adoption, since Google makes money on ads. So they license their OS for free to a bunch of manufacturers. They're doing pretty well.

Apple benefits from a simple, walled-off platform because that's their design philosophy. So they update a few products a year. They, too, are doing pretty well.




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