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Apple's IOS holds a massive lead over Google's Android
SELLER OF SHINY TOYS Apple is still enjoying a significant market share lead over Google's Android operating system in Europe, according to figures from analytics firm Comscore.
Comscore's figures peg Apple's IOS installed base at 28.8 million, with Google's Android OS installed on 13.3 million devices. The figures include all Apple devices that run IOS including the Iphone, Ipad and Ipod Touch in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Despite Android's astronomical growth in the smartphone market, Apple's IOS still remains top dog when tablets and media players are also taken into account. Tablets based on Android have yet to take off with Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets only just starting to appear on shelves, however it is in the portable media player market that Apple really has massive lead over Android.
As Comscore's figures include the Ipod Touch, it is not surprising to see Android so far back. Apple has enjoyed considerable success with the Ipod Touch, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs highlighting the popularity of the device as a handheld gaming unit. Surprisingly, few manufacturers have come out with Android based portable music players, giving IOS free reign over the high-end touchscreen media player market.
Other metrics collected by Comscore include the surprising news that 26.4 per cent of Ipad owners have Nokia phones. Common perception is that only Apple fanbois purchase Ipads, but Comscore tagged just 27.2 per cent of Ipad users as having Iphones.
While Google's Android is being used on a wide range of smartphones, for developers the size of an operating system's installed base is what matters. Comscore's figures suggest that IOS is still a long way ahead of Android, at least for the time being. µ
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Interesting... where I work... 7 people have ipads... and all 7 have iphones.
Market share...meh. I got a droid phone, I can do what I want with it. All the things an Iphone does and for half the cost. If other people can't see that then more fool them. Bunch of sheeps-es (sic)
@Sean
"I reckon these Stats include iPhones that are no longer being used."
Sorry, but that's just wishful thinking on your part. The Comscore data is from surveying devices being used on tens of thousands of websites for the last 3 months.
The problem is that Android fans have been ignoring iPod touch and iPad every chance they talk marketshare. You've been duped by this unthruth.
Oh Dear!?! Are we now in a world faced with mostly losers owning only a credit card, ILooneyTunes and a fruit themed toy?
SHIT
As this is based on existing devices, and not quarterly sales, I think it is a mistake to ignore the Symbian devices, I think they would trump everyone.
...long as you allow us to add in sales of, uh, _not_ phones.
So, we have that going for us.
...a certain post here isn't representative of the literacy standard of all iPhone users!
That's 'das hop dat int read writ standad d'all e foone usrs mfk' for the benefit of the author of that email.
Apple's IOS holds a massive lead over Google's Android, In EU, if you count iPods and tablets...
Data for IOS is from mid 2007 whilst 98%+ of Android is 2010 onwards.
So it sound about right.
I don't believe that for a minute. I'm privy to stats for loads of mobile site and Android devices have started overtaking iOS. I reckon these Stats include iPhones that are no longer being used.