It’s always risky to project things like smartphone market share numbers over the next five years but Juniper Research is predicting something that should make anyone who’s a fan of competition happy: Namely, iOS and Android aren’t going to completely kill off rival smartphone platforms over the next five years. That doesn’t mean iOS and Android are just going to go away, of course, and Juniper still projects that those two operating systems will still account for the vast majority of smartphones shipped in 2018. All the same, the firm thinks that around 13% of smartphones shipped in 2018 will be a wide mix of small newcomer operating systems such as Asha, Sailfish and other HTML 5-based platforms that will

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