Friday, November 2, 2012

Android Gets 75% Market Share

The Android smartphone operating system got 75 percent market share in the third quarter of 2012, according to International Data Corp.

Total Android smartphone shipments globally reached 136 million units, while total shipments were 181 million units shipped. Some observers will wonder whether we are not seeing another replay of the Apple-Windows scenario, where Windows took most of the share, using an "open" approach,  compared to Apple's "closed" approach.


             Top Six Smartphone Shipments,  Q3 2012 (Units in Millions) 
Operating System
3Q12 Shipment Volumes
3Q12 Market Share
3Q11 Shipment Volumes
3Q11 Market Share
Year-Over-Year 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%






Totals
181.1
100.0%
123.7
100.0%
46.4%


Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, November 1, 2012

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