85% of all smartphones shipped in 2012 run Android or Apple’s iOS
USA: New figures from the International Data Corporation (IDC) have revealed that 85% of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2012 ran either Android or Apple’s iOS.
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Operating System
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Q2 2012 shipments (million)
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Q2 2012 market share
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Q2 2011shipments (million)
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Q2 2011 market share
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Year-on-year change
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Android
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104.8
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68.1%
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50.8
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46.9%
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106.5%
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Apple iOS
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26.0
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16.9%
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20.4
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18.8%
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27.5%
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RIM BlackBerry OS
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7.4
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4.8%
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12.5
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11.5%
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-40.9%
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Symbian
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6.8
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4.4%
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18.3
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16.9%
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-62.9%
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Windows Phone 7 / Windows Mobile
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5.4
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3.5%
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2.5
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2.3%
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115.3%
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Linux
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3.5
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2.3%
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3.3
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3.0%
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6.3%
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Others
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0.1
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0.1%
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0.6
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0.5%
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-80.0%
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Grand Total
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154.0
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108.3
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42.2%
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Source: IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, August 2012
It’s a new combined high for the two mobile operating systems, contrasting with BlackBerry and Symbian which both saw their market shares fall below 5%.
Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said that ”The mobile OS market is now unquestionably a two-horse race due to the dominance of Android and iOS. 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.”
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