Android smartphone share quadruples iOS in Q2

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IDC reported that 104.8 million Android-based smartphones shipped worldwide during the second quarter, representing a 106.5 percent gain over the 50.8 million handsets that launched in the same period last year. Android nabbed 68.1 percent of the smartphone market last quarter.

Android's top competitor, Apple's iOS, was dominated by Google's operating system last quarter, nabbing only 16.9 percent market share on 26 million smartphone shipments. That figure was up 27.5 percent compared with the 20.4 million iPhones that hit store shelves during the second quarter last year.

"Android continues to fire on all cylinders," Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC's Mobile Phone Technology and Trends program, said today in a statement. "The market was entreated to several flagship models from Android's handset partners, prices were well within reach to meet multiple budgetary needs, and the user experience from both Google and its handset partners boosted Android smartphones' utility far beyond simple telephony."

http://news.cnet.com...ples-ios-in-q2/

Seems that all those "analysts" are dead on with the whole "Android is running out of steam" :rolleyes:

Android is now close to 70% of smartphone market. So crazy. When we remember the OS that had only 3% at the beginning of 2009,

I guess I was very close with my estimates.. iOS is now at 16.9 percent market share.. I guessed that by this year iOS would be between 15-20% overall. I think it will go lower as Windows Phone grows.

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Considering the OS runs on just about anything I don't really see how this is surprising. Android is basically the Windows of the smartphone market. That said I am kinda surprised Android tablets haven't really picked up.

A year and a half in and Android tablets have almost 40%.. compared to the first 2 years with Android phones this is HUGE start for tablets. Don't know where people get Android tablets are not picking up.

Wait till you see this year. My guess is that Android tablets explode this year and next year. Nexus 7 alone has already surpassed Kindle Fire. I think Android tablet numbers will be huge this year. This is really expected. The same thing happened when Google released Nexus One and we saw HTC Evo. That's when Android phones started blowing up. I think we are seeing the same exact thing with Android tablets.

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A year and a half in and Android tablets have almost 40%.. compared to the first 2 years with Android phones this is HUGE start for tablets. Don't know where people get Android tablets are not picking up.

It depends on the market I guess. Over here the general thing I hear from resellers is that sales of Android tablets are extremely disappointing.

Nexus 7 surpassing the Kindle Fire doesn't really mean much to me.

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How is this surprising? Android may run on all those devices, but it makes tons of sense to phone manufacturers ... If they could license iOS they would ;)

Fact is ... Comparing one company's product to that of countless companies products and saying it's such an achievement that 10 phone manufacturer's (more in fact) have outsold one manufacturer's product is quite silly.

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Fact is ... Comparing one company's product to that of countless companies products and saying it's such an achievement that 10 phone manufacturer's (more in fact) have outsold one manufacturer's product is quite silly.

Or maybe we're not comparing manufacturers, we're comparing software ecosystems.

What all those Android manufacturers have in common is Android. And Android is outselling iOS at a 4-to-1 ratio.

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