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What's the most important factor in your phone purchases?

A year after wireless carriers gave Google Inc. a testy reception at their big industry conference in Barcelona, the software company's Android operating system has become the star of the show. Android powers every significant device launched at the Mobile World Congress and is benefiting from a big marketing push by Google to trumpet its arrival. Beyond the hype, it's becoming increasingly evident to carriers, handset makers and app developers that Android is on equal footing, if not surpassing in some ways, Apple Inc.'s iOS platform. The concern now is that it could become too powerful.

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