Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly?

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The company formerly known as Research In Motion—which decided to cut right to the proverbial chase and rename itself 'BlackBerry'—launched its much-anticipated BlackBerry 10 operating system at a high-profile event in New York City Jan. 30. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still dumping tons of money and effort into Windows Phone. But can either smartphone OS — or another player, for that matter — successfully challenge Apple iOS and Google Android, which one research firm estimated as running on 92 percent of smartphones (http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/can-blackberry-or-windows-phone-overcome-the-ios-android-duopoly/)shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012? What would it take for any company to launch that sort of successful effort?

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