Who will ever thought will the android mobile operating
system will get this big so soon. I’m yet to try it though.
Almost three out
of four of smartphones around the world are now running the Android mobile
operating system, a new report has said. According to IT market research firm Gartner, Google’s
mobile OS now has a 72.4 per cent share of the market for mobile operating
systems, a massive increase from the 52.5 per cent it held a year ago.
Samsung’s wildly popular smartphones accounted for a big
portion of that gain, with the South Korean tech giant shipping 55 million
units, the majority of which run on Android, the Daily Mail reports. According to the survey, Apple, whose devices run on its
own proprietary iOS software, sold around 23.5 million phones over the same
period, the third quarter of 2012.
That was up from 17.3 million a year ago, but the rise
was not enough to stop the market share of the Silicon Valley company’s
operating system slipping from 15 per cent to 13.9 per cent, the paper said.
According to the paper, the survey said the fall in
Apple’s market share could have been a result of users around the world waiting
for the release of the iPhone 5 in their countries.
“With the launch of iPhone 5, Gartner analysts expect iOS
share will grow strongly in the fourth quarter of 2012 because users held on to
their replacements in many markets ahead of the iPhone 5 wider roll out,” the
firm added.
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