Android (operating system) market was 84.7%, a new record. This had grown to 87.5% worldwide market share by the third quarter of 2016, leaving main competitor iOS with 12.1% market share. According to an April 2017 StatCounter report, Android overtook Microsoft Windows to become the most popular operating system for total Internet usage. It has maintained the plurality since then. In September 2015, Google announced that Android had 1.4 billion monthly active users. This changed to 2 billion monthly active users in May 2017. Despite its success on smartphones, initially Android tablet adoption was slow. One of the main causes was the chicken
Market share liability mostly rejected because the strict requirements of applying market share liability. Courts have declined to expand the market-share approach to asbestos ("Becker v. Baron Bros."), handguns ("Hamilton v. Beretta"), and lead paint ("Santiago v. Sherwin Williams Co."). The market-share approach has been expanded to cases involving MTBE in the New York case "In re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether". Market share liability Market share liability is a legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to establish a prima facie case against a group of product manufacturers for an injury caused by a product, even when the plaintiff does not know from which