Android (operating system) of Android phones in use had known but unpatched security vulnerabilities due to lack of updates and support. Ron Amadeo of "Ars Technica" wrote also in August 2015 that "Android was originally designed, above all else, to be widely adopted. Google was starting from scratch with zero percent market share, so it was happy to give up control and give everyone a seat at the table in exchange for adoption. [...] Now, though, Android has around 75–80 percent of the worldwide smartphone market—making it not just the world's most popular mobile operating system but arguably the most popular operating system,
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