The single most alarming Android stat for Google

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/PNCOlTfeWYG4LGnvMM7Nsg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/android-jelly-bean_1.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/single-most-alarming-android-stat-google-183052992.html)In a recent report, ABI Research revealed that while Android dominated the worldwide smartphone landscape in the fourth quarter of last year, things aren’t looking as good for Google, which may be “losing control of the Android ecosystem.” The new research notes that the different “forked” Android OS versions that are popular in Asia do not include Google’s apps, thus depriving the search giant of ad-based revenue. According to ABI Reasearch, more than 280 million smartphones were shipped in the fourth quarter, with 77% of them being-Android devices. But of the 221.5 million or so Android devices shipped, only 150.4 million included Google services, while 71.1 million ran a forked Android version (AOSP). In other words, a shocking one in



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