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What’s happened in the smartphone wars over the past year

Apple Online Store “It’s been a year since Google released Android OS, the open-source smartphone operating system widely perceived as the most likely to overtake Apple’s iPhone in the long run,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.

“As it happens, Google this month also purchased AdMob, the world’s largest purveyor of mobile phone advertising. So this seemed as good a time as any to take a snapshot of the changing smartphone marketplace, as measured by ad requests to AdMob’s network,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.

“We reviewed a year’s worth of AdMob data — including the October numbers released Monday — and charted it on a graph [see full article],” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “There’s a bias in the data, since AdMob ads run better on iPhone OS and Android devices than on, say, Research in Motion (RIMM) BlackBerries. But the trends are clear.”

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