Since the arrival of smartphones, a healthy debate has raged over which mobile operating system reigns supreme. The conversation typically involves the two contenders iOS and Android. And, given ...

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iOS: 55.86% Android: 43.82% However, Android wasn’t always in the lead globally. Based on Statcounter numbers from the past 14 years, iOS at one point had a larger global share over Android.

When most compare Android to iOS, the first thing people typically bring up is that Google’s mobile operating system is customizable while Apple’s is rigid and set in a walled garden.

To launch an operating system with the impact and popularity of Android and iOS, it would entail that app developers must create apps that not only run on Android and iOS, but also on the third OS.

Growth is also very pertinent, and Android is the only OS to show any growth worldwide. iOS dropped from 16.6% last year, and Microsoft went down from 2.7% (though many of those losses came from ...