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Led by Samsung, Android smartphone shipments in 2012 Q2 surge to 68% of market

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by Jeff Causey on
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“Android continues to fire on all cylinders,” notes IDC senior research analyst Ramon Llamas in IDC’s just released report on smartphone operating system market share for the second quarter of 2012. The report reveals Android powered smartphones accounted for 68.1% of all smartphones shipped during the second quarter. Year-over-year numbers reveal the number of Android smartphones shipped in the second quarter doubled from 2011 to 2012, with more than 100 million units shipped this year during the second quarter.

Leading the way for Android powered devices was Samsung which accounted for 44.0% of Android smartphones shipped during the second quarter. Meanwhile, Apple’s share cooled to 16.9% of the market on shipments of 26 million iOS powered units. Although the growth in Apple’s numbers compared to a year ago would normally seem strong, iOS shipments are not keeping pace with the explosive expansion for Android smartphones.  This probably explains why Apple is fighting so hard in litigation against Android’s current flagship manufacturer, Samsung.

Meanwhile, stalwarts Blackberry and Symbian both saw their market share slip below the 5.0% level at 4.8% and 4.4% respectively. Market share for Windows based phones crept up slightly and Microsoft may not be far off from taking over third spot in the near future. It would be a distant third though as Android and iOS now command 85.0% of market.

source: IDC

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  • RTWright

    I will be fair to say that with Android it is because there are so many companies making devices for them. They outnumber iPhones I’d have to guess somewhere in the numbers of 30 to 1. There is only one iPhone, even if it has different configurations. There are a vast amount of different models for Android on the market so it’s a slightly unfair advantage there, but fair just the same because it’s Apple’s choice to not let anyone else use their iOS but them.

    Same reason they don’t dominate at all in the desktop computer world. They do just enough to keep business going, but the only real money they’ve been making is off of the iPhone and they shot themselves in the foot early on by only going with AT&T. Now it’s a bit late in the game, Android is improving by leaps and bounds. People that were once iPhone users are even seeing this and switching. So this is nothing more than pointing out the obvious here. Break it down by manufacture and you’d see that there are really only two hardball players in the market, Samsung and Apple. HTC would probably be third at this point.