Google Android to Outnumber IPhone Worldwide by 2012
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Google Inc.’s Android software, the operating system that runs smartphones, will outpace Apple Inc.’s iPhone in number of phones in use worldwide by 2012, according to researcher iSuppli Corp.
Android will be in 75 million smartphones in the next two years, giving the platform almost a fifth of the global market for the devices, iSuppli forecast in a note today. The iPhone’s software will be used in 62 million, said the El Segundo, California-based firm.