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> And that winning means that it's the OS of choice in billions of devices.

You already hint at this, but I would expect that it is more about what that quantity represents (obviously you cannot really untangle these things).

For example, it speaks for itself that number of users has a direct influence on to the number of developers and computer scientists working on the system and improving it. Or from Tanenbaum's point of view, fix issues that shouldn't have been there in the first place.



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