The Android OS accounted for three out of every four smartphones shipped in Q3, according to new figures from IDC.
The firm says that Android smartphone shipments worldwide reached 136.0
million units in the period, accounting for 75 percent of the 181.1
million smartphones shipped. The year-on-year growth rate was 91.5
percent, nearly double the overall market growth rate of 46.4 percent.
"Android has been one of the primary growth engines of the smartphone
market since it was launched in 2008," said IDC’s Ramon Llamas. "In
every year since then, Android has effectively outpaced the market and
taken market share from the competition.”
Apple’s iOS was a distant second place to Android on 26.9 million, but
was the only other mobile OS to amass double-digit market share for the
quarter (14.9 percent).
Phones running BlackBerry (4.3 percent), Symbian (2.3 percent), Windows
(2 percent) and Linux (1.5 percent) accounted for the remainder.
IDC: Top-6 smartphone mobile operating systems, shipments, and market share, 3Q12 (m units)
| |||||
Operating system
|
3Q12 shipments
|
3Q12 market share
|
3Q11 shipments
|
3Q11 market share
|
Y/Y shipment change
|
Android
|
136.0
|
75.0%
|
71.0
|
57.5%
|
91.5%
|
iOS
|
26.9
|
14.9%
|
17.1
|
13.8%
|
57.3%
|
BlackBerry
|
7.7
|
4.3%
|
11.8
|
9.5%
|
-34.7%
|
Symbian
|
4.1
|
2.3%
|
18.1
|
14.6%
|
-77.3%
|
Windows Phone 7/ Windows Mobile
|
3.6
|
2.0%
|
1.5
|
1.2%
|
140.0%
|
Linux
|
2.8
|
1.5%
|
4.1
|
3.3%
|
-31.7%
|
Others
|
0.0
|
0.0%
|
0.1
|
0.1%
|
-100.0%
|
Total
|
181.1
|
100.0%
|
123.7
|
100.0%
|
46.4%
|
"The share decline of smartphone operating systems not named iOS since
Android's introduction isn't a coincidence," said IDC’s Kevin Restivo.
"The smartphone operating system isn't an isolated product, it's a
crucial part of a larger technology ecosystem. Google has a thriving,
multi-faceted product portfolio. Many of its competitors, with weaker
tie-ins to the mobile OS, do not. This factor and others have led to
loss of share for competitors with few exceptions."
Source:http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com and IDC
So, if you are visiting Barcelona for the Mobile World Congress, MWC or GSMA in 2013 or just want to make a Tour, Day trip, Attractions or Excursion
or are interested in any other tour services, then check out the
picture below and if you can't find what you are looking for, call us on +34 663 801 325, because you can be sure we can do it.
