Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Android: MS-DOS of Our Time

Google's Android Eclipses Apple to Become the MS-DOS of Our Time | Wired Business | Wired.com:

Android’s share of the mobile phone market topped 80 percent of units shipped...
"Back in the mid-1980s, several competing personal computing platforms owned somewhat comparable pieces of the operating system market. Apple, Commodore, Atari, and IBM were all in the picture, each with an apparent fighting chance. But as the decade wore on, systems referred to at the time as IBM and its clones shot up in one of corporate history’s most legendary hockey sticks. The real winner in that ascendancy was Microsoft, the software platform powering all those machines...
The value wasn’t in the machines but the code that powered them, an insight that made Bill Gates the world’s richest man"


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