Android and iOS make up 99% of smartphone market
The smartphone business is principally managed by two main gamers, iOS and Android. Each have been dominant platforms on smartphones, they usually’re nonetheless getting much more market share after accounting for 99.1% international gadget gross sales on this yr’s second quarter. Google’s Android stays probably the most dominant and even obtained extra market share over the identical interval final yr. 2015’s second quarter statistics present a wholesome 82.2% market share for Android, rising to 86.2% for Q2 2016.
Apple’s iOS platform nonetheless holds the world’s second hottest cellular working system, however misplaced some floor to Android; 14.6% for Q2 2015, and 12.9% for Q2 2016. Android is the one cellular OS that managed to develop prior to now 12 months. Home windows telephones misplaced 1.9% market share, whereas Blackberry additionally went down from zero.three% to zero.1%. Different working methods, together with the as soon as well-liked Symbian, had zero.four% throughout the identical interval, however now right down to zero.2% in the course of the previous 12 months.
Blackberry being fairly stagnant, Symbian being not often used, and Microsoft slicing again on manufacturing smartphones means the market is left with solely iOS and Android to proceed dominating it. The one unknown is that if Android can hold getting elevated market share from iOS, or if Apple can develop a killer new iPhone that brings Android customers over.
As for producers, Samsung is main with 22.four% market share, a rise of zero.5% from final yr. Apple’s iPhone has the identical development because the OS market share. Huawei is following them intently behind, with eight.9% market share in comparison with final yr’s eight%.
Supply: Gartner