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COUNTRIES WITH POPULATIONS OVER 200K FOR WHICH POPULATION AND MOBILE PHONE SUBSCRIPTION DATA WERE AVAILABLE.
DATA: WORLD BANK, STATCOUNTERSmartphone use has exploded over the past decade, approaching 50% of the global population, and
Google’s Android mobile operating system is the reason for the vast majority of that growth. This world
map of mobile OS market share shows that while Apple Inc.’s iOS remains competitive in
phone-swamped countries including the U.S. and U.K. and maintains a firm lead in Japan,
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