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I think Android went on to fill the same role for mobile devices as Windows did for the PC.

A platform able to run on a large number of devices, not perfectly tuned to the hardware as iOS, but very good nonetheless,

Google managed to spot the market opportunity with great timing and went for it with pretty good execution.

This should have really been Microsoft territory, I wonder if the scenario will change somehow with Windows Phone 8 ?



I see people arguing that with Windows 8, the synergy with WP8, ability to remotely admin this new class of devices via group policies etc, corporate will jump on Windows 8 across the line, and somehow it will out of the blue be a clear contender in what is now a two horse race.

I don't quite buy it though. The place i have seen least enthusiasm for Windows 8 is in the Enterprise.




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