Following
through to its April report splitting
down smartphone shipments by company for the initial quarter of 2013, the
research folks at IDC today released a new report taking
a look at shipments from an OS perspective. The new report brings no surprises
and it demonstrates iOS and Android remain dominant in the smartphone market
with above 92% of shipments through the quarter, with Android's wide
availability driving it to represent 75% of shipments.
"Apple
iOS marked its largest ever first quarter volume on the strength of its iPhone
shipment volumes, yet the operating system posted a year-over-year decline in
market share and lower year-over-year shipment growth than the overall market.
Although demand remains strong worldwide, the iOS experience has remained
largely the same since the first iPhone debuted in 2007. That appears ready to
change as online rumours and speculation predict a massive overhaul of the user
interface when iOS 7 debuts."
The advantages
by Android and iOS throughout the last years proved to be at the cost of all
other OS's, but IDC's figures demonstrate that Windows Phone is just starting
to see signs of a movement with shipments significantly more than doubling year
after year, although its share of industry is staying at a low 3.2%.
Nevertheless,
Windows Phone was the sole minor competitor to achieve share over the last
year, with BlackBerry making it's way down to 2.9%, although IDC shows the
introduction of BB10 may bring up BlackBerry's numbers moving forward.
Symbian
and Linux also had significant share losses as their last supporters have moved
focus to Windows Phone and Android.
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