In an interview with Bloomberg, Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt claims Android is not only winning the war for mobile software platforms, it is extending its lead over rival Apple. Citing figures from the third quarter, Schmidt indicates Android grabbed 72% market share and is seeing 1.3 million new Android devices activated each day. This compares with Apple’s 14% market share for the same period. Schmidt likened the situation to Microsoft’s rise to prominence on the desktop back in the 1990′s that left Apple as largely a niche player on the desktop. Schmidt believes the same pattern is repeating itself in the mobile software market. » Read the rest