What typically gets lost in a lot of the horserace coverage comparing iOS and Android market share is the impact that both platforms have on the broader consumer electronics industry. Benedict Evans has a terrific post outlining how Android’s impact goes well beyond smartphone and tablet shipment numbers that garner headlines and extends to letting a whole new crop of consumer electronics companies add a level of intelligence to their devices that had previously not been possible. For instance, Evans notes that small electronics firms are using Android to make television dongles and in-car video players that are outside of the traditional smartphone and tablet silos. He also thinks that we’ll start to see a flurry of Nest imitators-that use



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