He thinks Nokia and Microsoft face a struggle if they are to make Windows Phone the market's third dominant operating system.
Whoever runs the dominant operating system of the future becomes the gatekeeper to content and software services, charging commissions or netting advertising dollars.
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Google's experience with Android, which has become the dominant operating system on new smartphones, shows it is not afraid of a scrap in the consumer arena.
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MS-DOS and later Windows as the dominant operating system for the personal computer thanks to its own pioneering efforts, the brilliance of its business strategy and the network effects that give a single standard inherent advantages over any rivals.
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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Microsoft has amassed a large fortune from its very dominant Windows operating system.
"The dominant food production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " says Dr Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy at London's City University.
Analysts say Linux and other open source software pose a growing threat to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system, which is used on more than 90% of the world's computers.
Now that the evidence is out, it seems obvious that Microsoft played dirty, trying to force competitors out of the market by bundling new applications to its market-dominant Windows operating system.
While the company distributes millions of copies of its dominant Windows operating system (which holds about 90% of the PC market) through computer makers such as HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and others, the company reached a deal with Nokia to begin to expand its smartphone presence.
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This means that, once an operating system is dominant, developers have little reason to make their applications work with other operating systems.
"The dominant food-production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " said Dr Martin Caraher, professor of food and health policy at London's City University.
The U.S. financial system remains a dominant force on the global landscape that few responsible foreign financial institutions and companies can live without.
District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said in June that Microsoft should be split in two as its sentence for abusing its dominant position in the personal computer operating system market.
Thus, how power can be obtained, maintained, and expanded is the dominant concern of key players in any political system.
With money and trading positions frozen or potentially lost, some people are feeling disappointed or even betrayed by the system and CME Group, the dominant futures exchange.
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In a parallel universe, MeeGo became the standard operating system for netbooks, which became the dominant form of mobile computing.
The Fed, of course, as the bank of the dominant power, gains great power over the global monetary system.
With Android and Apple so dominant, you might think there was no room for another operating system, whether it was Blackberry or Windows Phone.
In soccer though, the economics are such that there is a very obvious class system, with a half dozen European superclubs in a perennially dominant position where they can cherry-pick talent from their closest rivals.
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These economic developments suggest there is a good chance that the monetary system will have to evolve dramatically, and the dollar will become somewhat less dominant.
The console, a modified computer system specially designed for use by gamers, replaced the arcade machine as the dominant means of playing and selling video games long ago.
That system permits any company, no matter how small or large, to aspire to become the dominant firm in its market, driving competitors out.
However, recently Apple's dominant position in the tablet market has been challenged by a string of tablets powered by Google's Android operating system.
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