Android v. Apple: The race to U.S. smartphone saturationAsymco's Horace Dediu now expects U.S. smartphone penetration to hit 90% by Dec. 2016.
<p>FORTUNE -- I don't pretend to understand -- even after reading the Wikipedia entry on logistic regression -- the statistics Asymco's Horace Dediu used to draw the chart at right.</p>
<p>But even I can see that the curves representing various smartphone platforms have different shapes:</p>
Orange: Research in Motion (BBRY), headed south
Blue: Microsoft (MSFT), recovering
Yellow: Android (GOOG), leveling off
Red:
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Android v. Apple: The race to U.S. smartphone saturation
