
Android Stealing Symbian & WinMo Market Share
November 15th, 2009 admin

Android is flourishing – nobody can deny that – but its success has to come at the expense of someone. Those someones are stale mobile operating systems that haven’t pushed far enough forward for consumers to take a renewed interest. We know all of this, of course, but just recently an analyst at Gartner – Roberta Cozza – did some number crunching. Below are smartphone market share numbers from Q3 2008, and then Q3 2009, with the % change in parenthesis afterwards: Android – 0% to 3.9% BlackBerry OS – 16% to 20.8% iPhone – 12.9% to 17.1% Symbian – 49.7% to 44.6% WebOS – 0% to 1.1% Windows Mobile – 11% to 7.9% So Android, BlackBerry OS, iPhone OS and WebOS…
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