Android is About To Eclipse Windows as the World's Most-Used Operating System (cnet.com)

John Falcone, writing for CNET: Android is poised to overtake Windows as the world's most-used operating system. That's the word from web analytics service StatCounter, which monitors worldwide web traffic with an eye towards device operating systems. The firm found that 37.4 percent of devices online were Android -- just a hair behind Windows at 38.6 percent. Perhaps the bigger concern for Microsoft are the trend lines, however: Windows is on a steady march down from 82 percent in 2012, while Android is mirroring it upward from 2.2 percent in the same 5-year period.

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Re:Android is not an operating system

[Tough Love]

though the Linux desktop "OS" has truly become thought of as being called "Linux" ... in this case Linux truly is just the kernel, and Android is the OS.

Not so. Android is an OS only according to marketers and those who believe them. For anybody who will trouble themselves to understand the textbook definition, Linux is the OS (e.g., it schedules, manages virtual memory and devices, enforces security) and Android is a platform, not an OS (e.g., Android does not schedule, does not manage virtual memory, does not implement device drivers and does not provide the base security mechanism).

Now, I would not be surprised at all to see this post modded down once again by some morally challenged Google or Apple employee with too much time on their hands and too much skin in the game.