Android installed on 9 in 10 mobile devices — a new record

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by Sindy Cator on November 3, 2016 at 7:38 pm

Google’s Android mobile operating system has long been the world’s most popular. In the third-quarter of 2016, however, Apple’s declining iPhone sales pushed it to new heights, according to new research. Android managed to capture 87.5 percent of global smartphone market share to end the month of September, according to analysts at Strategy Analytics. For those bad at math, that means nearly nine of every 10 smartphones on the planet is running Google’s mobile operating system. Last quarter alone, Google managed to ship 328.6 million devices running the OS — an increase of 10.3 percent year-on-year. Apple, during the same period,…