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Android is the most popular mobile OS
THE LATEST FIGURES from consumer peepers Nielsen have shown that the Android operating system is the most popular of the mobile pack.
The Nielsen figures are particularly interesting as they include data taken during the six month period in which the Iphone 4 was released and include one full month of its sales. Nielsen added that this was the first time it had broken out such numbers.
The study was carried out over six months and shows that the Blackberry OS is the most common software found in user pockets, but it also found that the Android operating system was most popular among people buying new handsets.Trends change though, and even here the different OSs are locked in a push me pull you battle. So for example, over the whole period Blackberry enjoyed 31 per cent of the market, the Iphone 28 per cent, and Android 19 per cent.
Overall, this means that Blackberry lost five points off its share between January 2010 and August, Apple wibbled between 27 and 28 per cent, and Android grew from 8 from 19 per cent.
For new purchases though, the shares differ. Nielsen said that here Android nibbled away at the competition and increased its share even more dramatically, rising from 14 to 32 per cent. Apple meanwhile, let some 7 per cent of users slip through its fingers and fell from 32 to 25 per cent, despite its release of the Iphone 4 in June, while Blackberry took an 8 per cent dunk and dropped from 34 to 26 per cent. µ
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A drop from 32 to 25 % is not a 7 % drop. Apple sales are down a whopping 22 %!
((32-25)/32)*100
Well, the title of the article is wrong in terms which OS is on the most phones, and in the fact that reported number are for US only.
But (!) it is right in terms what is the most sought out OS in recent times, as the graph shows, clearly steeper line that any other, and I don't see that changing any time soon. In my experience every day, I only hear about Android, a little about some fault or a new stupidity about iphone, and nothing really about RIM, so... not hard to guess...
The study was carried out over six months and shows that the Blackberry OS is the most common software found in user pockets, but it also found that the Android operating system was most popular among people buying new handsets.
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Seems quite clear to me. It shows that Android is the most popular phone being bought, but does show that BB is popular. In regards to Symbian, take that up with Nielsen. It's their report.
As said in the previous comments, this article is misleading, and should not have been published in the current form and with the current title, as it is totally biased.
This is an example of a kind of article that the Inquirer should laugh at...
Android is not the dominant OS. Not even in the smartphone segment.
And people keep forgetting that the smartphone market is not the only one, as the world is full of feature phones.
I seem to remember this site slagging of the BBC for reporting as useless as this.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. I am sure it started going wrong in the cave first.
Android: World's Number 2 Mobile OS
http://www.muktware.com/news/10/2010/338
OS 2009 2010
Symbian 80,876.3 107,662.4
Market Share (%) 46.9 40.1
Android 6,798.4 47,462.1
Market Share (%) 3.9 17.7
RIM 34,346.8 46,922.9
Market Share (%) 19.9 17.5
iOS 24,889.8 41,461.8
Market Share (%) 14.4 15.4
Windows Phone 15,031.1 12,686.5
Market Share (%) 8.7 4.7
Other 10,431.9 12,588.1
Market Share (%) 6.1 4.7
...you completely ignore the actual facts and figures and the fact that Symbian still holds approximately 40% - 45% of the world smartphone market. See http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010081.html for an article actually worth considering as news.
(PS is Lawrence writing under a pseudonym now?)
Once you figure in the fact that Android is available on countless numbers of cell phones, tablets, and e-readers then I would hope that it's more popular then the other mobile OS systems.
This article is nothing more then linkbait..
I thought these figures were for the US only? The article does not make that clear.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, oh and Inquirer news items.