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Android really is the new Windows

Analyst figures can be a dry affair, but sometimes they’re so stark that they make the future a bit clearer. That’s the case with the mobile sales numbers that came out of Gartner yesterday.

It seems that Android really is the new Windows. By extension, that means Linux — on which Android is based — is currently whipping ten shades out of Microsoft and indeed everyone else. How times change.

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