“2007 could be called the year of the mobile operating system.
Since Microsoft entered the scene around five years ago, the
smartphone operating system industry has been fairly stable.
Symbian, Linux, Research in Motion, and Windows Mobile make up the
bulk of smartphone software, each to varying degrees of success in
different regions.“But in 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, which runs its own
brand of software, and Google announced that next year its Android
mobile operating system platform will come out…”
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