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It mattered for Microsoft. Once it had 90% market share, every other OS/platform became almost irrelevant in the consumer space.


I think that was an odd situation that had a lot to do about how software was distributed and consumed then.

Even if Android keeps gaining marketshare -lets say it gets to 70/75%- I don't think this will play the same way as Mac/PC did in the 90s. Most of what people do these days with a computer / phone is platform agnostic (web browsing, for instance).




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