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The article focuses on competition in the smartphone operating system (OS) market. It states that the primary two OS are search engine Google's Android and computer company Apple's iPhone OS. It mentions competition includes software company Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS and nonprofit Mozilla's Fir...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 406; no. 8825; p. 62
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/2/2013
Subjects:
Android (Operating system)
Microsoft Windows (Operating system)
Research In Motion Ltd.
Mozilla Firefox (Computer software)
Emerging markets
Computer operating systems
Smartphones
BlackBerry (Smartphone)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article focuses on competition in the smartphone operating system (OS) market. It states that the primary two OS are search engine Google's Android and computer company Apple's iPhone OS. It mentions competition includes software company Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 OS and nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox OS, along with smartphone operator Blackberry, formerly called Research in Motion. It comments on the expansion of smartphones into emerging markets such as India and Africa.