During the second quarter, over 255 million Android-based devices shipped worldwide, representing an 84.7 percent market share, IDC reported on Thursday. Apple's iOS came in second place with 11.7 percent market share and 35.2 million shipments. Combined, the Google and Apple operating systems own 96 percent of the global smartphone market, according to IDC.
Vendors shipped a total of 301.3 million smartphones worldwide between April and June, said IDC.
"It's been an incredible upward slog for other OS players," Melissa Chau, a senior research manager at IDC, said in a statement. "Windows Phone has been around since 2010 but has yet to break the 5 percent share mark, while the backing of the world's largest smartphone player, Samsung, has not boosted Tizen into the spotlight."
Windows Phone was only able to nab 2.5 percent of the market in the second quarter on 7.4 million shipments. Blackberry came in fourth place with 0.5 percent share, according to IDC.
All of my friends and family have iPhones though Shouldn't be taken into consideration? If we already have the phones, why would we keep buying them? Wait until iPhone 6 comes out and then if sales are still low then drag it.
Also doesn't samsung have like 5 billion different phones, while Apple still only has one?
All of my friends and family have iPhones though Shouldn't be taken into consideration? If we already have the phones, why would we keep buying them? Wait until iPhone 6 comes out and then if sales are still low then drag it.
Also doesn't samsung have like 5 billion different phones, while Apple still only has one?
This gap has been around for years, it has been getting bigger over time.
That's just phones shipped (all there 378397 models). The only person I know who doesn't own a iPhone, is my unstable sibling. And just wait until September. The iPhone 6 is upon us.