We have scoured the web for data that will help us show exactly how big Android is in the smartphone world. And in every way we looked at it, Android is ginormous.
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You can read the full article at
http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/02/25/ginormous-android/
But here is a summary.
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There is no denying that Android, Google’s
operating system for mobile devices, is big. For
example, Android is the OS on 42% of all
consumer compute devices.
We have scoured the web for data that will help
us show exactly how big Android is in the
smartphone world. And in every way we looked
at it, Android is ginormous.
4. Smartphone web traffic by OS
50%
37%
40%
Android
Symbian OS
30%
iOS
20%
Series 40
10% BlackBerry OS
0%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Data source: StatCounter www.pingdom.com
5. Market share, top 5 Android and iOS markets
100%
90%
64%
Other
52%
47% 67%
50% Android
iOS
0%
USA UK China Japan South Korea
Data sources: comScore, Digital future, Flurry , Informa, The Korea Times www.pingdom.com
6. Smartphone shipments
Total: 150 million Total: 208 million
smartphones smartphones
Other
Other iOS
43.5 M
iOS
35.5 M
Android
Android 144.7 M
77.1 M (70%)
(51%)
Q4 2011 Q4 2012
Data source: Gartner www.pingdom.com
7. Largest smartphone manufacturers
Total manufactured
smartphones 2012: 713 M 228 M
145 M
Samsung
Apple
(In millions of units)
Data source: Communities Dominate Brands www.pingdom.com
8. Smartphone market share worldwide
100%
Other
43% Android 65%
19% iOS 20%
December December
2011 2012
Data source: Communities Dominate Brands www.pingdom.com
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Nothing in our data, and we mean
nothing, indicates that Android is
going to start losing ground in the
smartphone market.
Actually, everything points in the
other direction, it is up everywhere
you look.
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What will be interesting to see during
2013 is what will happen to Windows
Phone and BlackBerry.
Will they at least make the
smartphone market a bit more
interesting, and not just a big
Android show with the iOS sidekick?
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Sources
Communities Dominate Brands, comScore, Digital future, Flurry, Gartner, Informa,
StatCounter, The Korea Times
And a few of our own calculations :)