Gnawing the knuckle that knocks it
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Android rules a third of the smartphone market
THE OPEN SOURCE mobile operating system Android now accounts for a third of total smartphone marketshare, according to the latest report by Comscore.
Comscore put Android at 33 per cent of the smartphone subscriber base for the three month period ending in February of this year. That's a seven per cent increase from the previous Comscore report in November 2010, where Android came in at 26 per cent.
During the same period Apple saw a tiny increase in its share from 25 per cent to 25.2 per cent. All of the other major rivals saw decreases, with RIM falling from 33.5 per cent to 28.9 per cent, Windows Phone down from nine per cent to 7.7 per cent, and PalmOS dropping from 3.9 per cent to 2.8 per cent.
Of the top five mobile manufacturers, the first three are supporters of Android. Samsung topped the list with a 24.8 per cent marketshare, an increase of 0.3 per cent. LG was in second position at 20.9 per cent, unchanged from the previous report. Motorola saw a decrease of 0.9 per cent to 16.1 per cent. RIM fell by 0.2 percent to 8.8 per cent and Apple was at 7.5 per cent, gaining 0.9 per cent.
This firmly puts Google's Android OS in top position in the market, which is likely to have increased further in size during March as well. A recent report by ABI Research predicted that Android will have 45 per cent marketshare by 2016, but if it continues its growth at its present pace it might reach that point long before then. µ
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Symbian is still the most powerful smartphone OS in existence.
Of course many find the lack of a Fisher-Price style user interface off-putting but that takes nothing away from the power and efficiency of Symbian.
yes, i know, i've read the original article, link below:
http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/4/comScore_Reports_February_2011_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share
Really? By whose definition? Didn't Nokia use to have like 45% of the smartphone market in the end of last year? With which OS did it have it then if not with Symbian? This study seems to be too Americanized, where Symbian is regarded as basically nothing.
It a smartphone study, not handsets.
symbian is not a smartphone OS
The iPhone is not a smartphone, it's a feature phone - no true multi-tasking, limited bluetooth functionality, no USB mass storage, no USB OTG, no file manager, no Java, no Flash, no sd card support, etc, etc...
No matter how many iPhones have been sold and no matter how much gullible fools will pay for one comparing it to a Symbian phone or a BlackBerry is just silly nonsense.
Please read the article first, it said the smartphone market, not tablet or music player market hence that's why there is no reference to your precious Ipad or Ipod. So no, not a flawed study.
this study should show OS market share but doesn't include iPads and iPods so how useful that data is? it's not
So, Symbian's share is 0 percent?
"Open Source" is now very debatable, given Google's recent behaviour.