To catch you up, Windows RT is designed to run on ARM-based devices in an attempt to beat back iOS and Android in the tablet space.
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The fact that Apple now has serious competition from Android in both the smartphone and tablet space is a good thing.
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Android is cleaning up in the smart phone space in China.
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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the leader in the tablet space and the Android and Kindle products on the market are staunch competitors.
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While Nokia may still dominate the overall global mobile phone market, it has lost significant ground in the smartphone space to Apple and Android-based phones.
From a value perspective, Google is very appealing right now given its success in monetizing search and YouTube, as well as its fast-growing market share in the smart phone space with its Android operating system.
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That is true, but margins and profits in the mobile app space (especially on Android) are not stunning.
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Given the market share disparities between Android, iOS and the others, the race is on in the connected mobile device space for third place.
Apple and Google have obviously squared off in the mobile space, with more smartphones now running Google's Android system, even though the iPhone remains the single most popular phone.
Lookout said it recently found a text-generating strain of malware in a copied version of the "Angry Birds Space" app on Anzhi, an app store in China for Android devices.
Meanwhile, Samsung continues to rack up big profits in the smartphone space and Strategy Analytics believes Samsung took 95% of all Android smartphone profits during 1Q 2013.
Available for iOS and Android, the objective of the space-themed strategy game is to build a colony on a mysterious planet in outer space.
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