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For two years now, that basic, terrestrial formula was enough to make Angry Birds the de facto king of mobile gaming, and a stand-in for a casual gaming revolution that was gripping phone users and proving a full-fledged commercial phenomenon.
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Even when Symbian was the de facto king of the smartphones, it never gained a solid foothold in the US. Developers flocked to iOS, and to a lesser extent the nascent Android platform, even though numerically in those days Symbian was the larger platform.
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For them, old units like the pied de Roi (King's Foot) kept people chained to ignorance and superstition, and had to be swept away for Reason to take hold.
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