Who Won The Smartphone Wars: Google Or Apple? | Tech.pinions - Perspective, Insight, Analysis

Conclusion from an Android reality check

"It may sound like I’m denigrating what Google’s Android has accomplished. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Android absolutely and overwhelming achieved its strategic objective. It gutted Microsoft’s business model and provided Google with access to the then burgeoning mobile marketplace.
But, let’s keep things in perspective. Just because Google won with Android, doesn’t mean it won nearly as much as Apple did with the iPhone. Android kept Google from being locked out of mobile. With the introduction of the iPhone, Apple went from being just another fortune 500 company to one of the largest, most successful companies in the free world. If that ain’t winning, what is?"

Who Won The Smartphone Wars: Google Or Apple? | Tech.pinions - Perspective, Insight, Analysis