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android and chrome both are also late but they won. In Cloud also they are late but they look like to be making big progress.

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Android didn't win, they just prevented Apple to have a 100% monopoly on smartphones.

Edit: Apple is certainly taking the lion's share of profits in the phone space. Since Google isn't investing as heavily anymore in Android, the development has slowed considerably.

Define winning - I'd take "Android maintained its position as the leading mobile operating system worldwide in the second quarter of 2023 with a market share of 70.8 percent. Android's closest rival, Apple's iOS, had a market share of 28.4 percent during the same period." [0]

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272698/global-market-sha...

Android is like 80% of the market, Apple just has a majority in the US

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