Elgan: The rise and rise (and rise) of Apple's iOS

25.06.2011

A reasonably credible rumor from a blogger in China says that China's biggest carrier, China Mobile, will soon .

The current iPhone is available in China only from the No. 2 carrier. Such an announcement would suggest a radical increase in iPhone sales in the world's largest country, and one with an incredible , where the iPhone is very popular.

Apple currently dominates the tablet market, having sold 25 million iPads to date and possibly over . But one analyst believes .

OK, OK. It's clear that Apple's iOS is beyond successful, and threatens to dominate global mobile sales in the foreseeable future.

The reason this is significant is that as Apple comes to dominate mobile computing, mobile computing increasingly dominates computing in general.