Samsung was the largest contributor to Android's success, accounting for 45.4 percent of all Android-based smartphone shipments. In addition, Android boasted the longest list of smartphone vendor partners. Google Android finished the quarter as the overall leader among the mobile operating systems, accounting for more than half of all smartphone shipments. Highlights of the Mobile Operating System Market Assessment "Neither Android nor iOS were the first to market with some of these features, but the way they made the smartphone experience intuitive and seamless has quickly earned a massive following."
"The popularity of Android and iOS stems from a combination of factors that the competition has struggled to keep up with," said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst at IDC. The share gains mean that the Android and iOS mobile ecosystems have successfully distanced themselves from previous market leaders Symbian and BlackBerry, as well as Linux and Windows Phone 7 or Windows Mobile. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), these mobile OS leaders held shares of 59.0 percent and 23.0 percent respectively of the 152.3 million smartphones shipped in 1Q12.ĭuring the first quarter of 2011, the two operating systems held a combined share of 54.4 percent.
Smartphones powered by the Google Android and Apple iOS mobile device operating system (OS) accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).
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