Majority of smartphones run either Android or iOS
Gartner has released their latest findings that most smartphone users have known, you are using Android or iOS. Android and iOS accounted for 99.6 percent of all smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2016. The scale is inching more in favor with Android but it is a pretty bleak picture for Blackberry and Windows Phone. Google and Apple are dominating the industry and with these types of numbers it is next to impossible for any other firm to compete with them.
Of the 432 million smartphones sold in the last quarter, 352 million ran Android (81.7 percent) and 77 million ran iOS (17.9 percent), but what happened to the other players? Well, in the same quarter, Windows Phone managed to round up 0.3 percent of the market, while BlackBerry was reduced to a rounding error. The once-great firm sold just over 200,000 units, amounting to 0.0 percent market share.
Just 3 years ago, Gartner and Microsoft thought they were going to take over the market but as you can see that is further from the truth. BlackBerry would still be hanging around as sizable (if small) player but to be quite honest it seems that the writing is on the wall for these 2 products. The belief is that Blackberry will disappear very soon and the bottom line on Windows Phone is coming as well in 2017.
The smartphone market continues to shift into making a device that is used for almost everything in life. So predictions for any future mobile OS that will compete against these two most likely will never happen. Th e only issue as you can see is that there are only 2 vendors, will new capabilities continue to come out or do we have the best we are going to get for the years to come.
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