Android Beats Ios 5-To-1 In Q3 Smartphone Market Share

[lomatopo]

New data shows that Android nabbed 75 percent of the world's smartphone market share, while iOS trailed with 14.9 percent and BlackBerry brought up the rear with just 4 percent.

Android commanded the worldwide smartphone market share in the third quarter, new data from research firm IDC has revealed. With a whopping 75 percent of market share and more than 181 million smartphones shipped, Android's operating system is apparently just fine with most phone users. In a distant second place, Apple's iOS grabbed fewer than 15 percent of the world's market share.

"Android has been one of the primary growth engines of the smartphone market since it was launched in 2008," IDC Mobile Phones Research Manager Ramon Llamas said in a statement. "In every year since then, Android has effectively outpaced the market and taken market share from the competition. In addition, the combination of smartphone vendors, mobile operators, and end-users who have embraced Android has driven shipment volumes higher."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57544131-94/android-beats-ios-5-to-1-in-q3-smartphone-market-share/

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23771812

[smokie36]

Quite simply Apple haven't made a cheap phone. Therefore those of us who don't want to spend a fortune have chosen Android.

[Chicog]

Even if they were cheap, they'd still be s**t. Just cheap s**t.

Edited November 2, 2012 by Chicog

[smokie36]

Even if they were cheap, they'd still be s**t. Just cheap s**t.

I have an Itouch. Yeah...its sh*t.

My music is great though!