Android Market share

[teddyearp]

Who would have thought this would happen? On November 8, 2009, IOS and RIM were the kings in the smartphone market.

On November 9, 2009, the Motorola A855 (OG Droid) was released. I don't care who you are, that single phone put Android on the map. Not only that but put Android on a fast track to take over.

Now look at the stats. Android 79.3%, IOS lagging at 13.2%, and RIM lagging far behind at 2.9%.

All hail Android and the Moto A855 for putting it there!

 

[jseger9000]

Yeah, but Google continues to make more $$$ off of iOS than it does Android.

It was easy to predict that Android would be the #1 phone OS when Google is giving it away for free. I wonder if they wouldn't have been better off by charging $0.99 per activation or something like that?

Don't mean to sound trollish. I'm no Apple fan, believe me.

 

[mikedt]

Who would have thought this would happen? On November 8, 2009, IOS and RIM were the kings in the smartphone market.

On November 9, 2009, the Motorola A855 (OG Droid) was released. I don't care who you are, that single phone put Android on the map. Not only that but put Android on a fast track to take over.

Now look at the stats. Android 79.3%, IOS lagging at 13.2%, and RIM lagging far behind at 2.9%.

All hail Android and the Moto A855 for putting it there!

Is this the whole world or just one country? TBH I've not seen many Motorola phones. Seems more like all hail Android and white Samsungs for "putting it there" from what I've seen.. LOL

 

[Rxpert83]

That's likely world statistics, and Samsung currently leads the way as far as android phone sales

 

[Jersey Tom]

A couple interesting charts... bearing in mind that smartphone and mobile device are not one and the same:

I would say that in 2009, RIM and others would have clearly been king of smartphones having several times the share of Apple, then Apple several times the share of Android. Q4 2009 / Q1 2010 seems like a turning point for Android sales though, for sure.

What's interesting is that the Apple share seems to have stayed fairly consistent. While share - percentage - is consistent, working under the assumption that more smartphones must be sold every year... they must still be growing sales volume, just not nearly at the rate of Android. If smartphone sales increase linearly, then I'd guess Apple volume would grow linearly while Android would be quadratic. Clearly RIM are the biggest loser, which is no surprise to anyone.

Would be interesting to see this purely for the US market. Certainly in recent years I feel like Samsung have clearly blown away every other manufacturer as far as marketing... though going back a few years I'd say all the "Droid" marketing was right up there. Around 2010 or 2011 when I first got a smartphone I seem to recall most of my coworkers going for some flavor of Motorola and a handful of HTC.

I prefer Android, but for a long time I've been fair and said hey, Apple makes good products. Maybe a bit more polished than Android for some time. Recently though in the past few iterations of iPhone, seems like it's been quite stagnant as far as innovation (which the Galaxy S ads targeted quite well!). We'll see what their latest offering shows.

 

[jseger9000]

I think iOS 7 looks pretty neat. But it also looks an awful lot like Android,mixed with Windows Phone and WebOS. Funny that Apple sued everyone for copying them. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, they are just 'borrowing'

 

[Hadron]

Is this the whole world or just one country? TBH I've not seen many Motorola phones. Seems more like all hail Android and white Samsungs for "putting it there" from what I've seen.. LOL

I think that for the last few years Motorola have been selling almost exclusively in the US. You more or less never see them in the UK - I see vastly more HTCs, or even Windows phones, than Motorolas. If anything you could make a case that in the UK the breakthrough Android was the HTC Desire, though the share was growing before then, but for sure it wasn't a Motorola.

Mind you, it's not surprising really. In the last couple of years what have they released here? The RAZR I (intel variant of the RAZR M), and, er... well they eventually released the RAZR HD, but not the Maxx, when it was more than 6 months old, with the result that no carrier took it up. And they've said that we won't get the X, so it doesn't seem to be changing yet. Shame, as I like Motorola kit, but they seem to have given up on the global market.

 

[Stannis the Mannis]

We had the Razr HD here, but no MAXX :/ And it was exclusive to only one carrier, total BS.

 

[Stuntman]

I noticed Apple had a huge jump in market share around the time of Steve Jobs' passing.

 

[nickdalzell]

I'm seeing Android heading towards the same hybrid of WebOS, Apple's iOS, and Windows Metro. I'm not lovin' it.

 

[saidiadude]

A little off topic, but here's an interesting page that shows market share of the different Android platforms: linkie. Growth rate is not covered as it is a snapshot obviously. From the page: "Data collected during a 7-day period ending on February 4, 2014"