Android phone shipments reach 100 million a quarter in Q2, platform dominates the market along with iOS
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"Android continues to fire on all cylinders," IDC’s senior research analyst Ramon Llamas concluded mentioning both the low-end models on offer and the flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S III.
While the two leading platforms only grew their lead, this was partly due to BlackBerry and Symbian losing positions. Windows Phone on the other hand is slowly crawling forward, but still at a tempo that didn’t grant it the coveted third place. At least it finally outgrew Samsung’s bada (look at the Linux category) operating system. WP’s rise to the third place is probably going to happen sooner or later, but right now Microsoft’s platform ranked only fifth in Q2 2012.
"The mobile OS market is now unquestionably a two-horse race due to the dominance of Android and iOS," Kevin Restivo, a senior research analyst at IDC noted. "With much of the world's mobile phone user base still operating feature phones, the smartphone OS market share battle is far from over. There is still room for some mobile OS competitors to gain share, although such efforts will become increasingly difficult as smartphone penetration increases."
source: IDC
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14 Comments
1. Birds posted on 08 Aug 2012, 06:07 4 1
As a netizen, I hate that I get ridiculed for being a fan of both Android and IOS....Like seriously do I have to choose between the two? It is not fair! Don't put so much responsiblity on a kid. lol
2. PAPINYC (limited) 6 days ago posted on 08 Aug 2012, 06:12 9 2
If this story is about Android activations, why iNject crApOS into the story. I have an iPhone 4S but iOnly use it as a music player with DJ Pro by Algorridm (that's all it's really good for) and you don't see me iNjecting it iNto everything.
3. mercorp posted on 08 Aug 2012, 06:12 6 1
Congrats,google.
But I really want to see a tripoly of android,ios and wp8 together.
5. pokharkarsaga posted on 08 Aug 2012, 06:58 2 0
Second quarter of 2014 will definitely be four horse race.the horses will be Android,IOS,Windows Phone and Blackberry OS.
6. Follower posted on 08 Aug 2012, 07:02 4 1
It really hard to gain market share for WP & BB
wish them success
9. Edmund posted on 08 Aug 2012, 07:45 1 4
lol. typical fanboys. How about the fact that WP7 actually grew faster than android.
10. ph00ny posted on 08 Aug 2012, 07:59 2 0
Why? because percentage gained is bigger because their market share was really small?
Let's not beat around the bush here. That's exactly how Apple twists numbers around during their product/event announcements
11. protozeloz posted on 08 Aug 2012, 10:24 1 0
I'd rather get an increase of 106% on a 10,000 dollar salary and not a 115% of a 400 dollar salary, plus you know how much money is MS putting into its OS?
13. pikapowerize (banned) posted on 08 Aug 2012, 21:23 0 0
i thinks its a fair shair...
android has a lot of manufacturer (samsung,sony,motorola,lg,huawei,zte, and cheap chinese phone)
apple has the one and only iPhone..
symbian dont buzz people now... but thanks to 808 pureview it move someone!
blackberry's share is small because of its ecosystem.. they are so dependent on BBM.. they forgot to let their app world grow!! and bb devices cost too much.. you can get an android phone alternate to a blackberry device!! and i think lowering the pricetag is the only solution on blackberry device.. specially that they got new OS coming called BB10 and those who will get a new bb7 device wont be upgraded to bb10.. so its kinda sucide buying a device that wont be supported..
Windows phone is on good start.. but still so small...and its phones also are expensive even with the lumia 610 only around $200 still expensive for some people.. they could buy sub $150 android phones with apps bluetooth file transfer and expandable memory card that wp7 dont offer...
bada.. does people really care about bada.. samsung's image is all about android now... if they want to push bada (and i heard that they will merge bada in tizen) i think they are in wrong marketing...
14. kingstandup posted on 09 Aug 2012, 15:10 0 0
I wonder if BB10 will help RIM get back to where it once was...many moons ago lol.
