Android growing strong? Report shows 33% Market Share.
A report released by big advertisement guru AdMob shows that the Android OS share of the market is growing… and even surpassed Symbian OS for the #2 spot worldwide. In North America, the Android OS is holding strong at 33%, only sitting behind the Apple iOS, which held 54% of the market. Below the Android OS is RIM OS, which runs on Blackberry devices, at only 7%. With such a big market share, it clearly shows how much the Android Platform is on the rise.
Will the future reports be affected by the release of iOS 4 and the iPhone 4? Time will tell, but don’t count the Android out. With what I see coming in the future with new phones and development, I would not be surprised to see the gap between Android and iPhone decrease.
To take a look at the report for yourself, download it here.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 1:11 pm
AdMob is owned by Google… not that I doubt its validity, just seems like that should be mentioned.
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
These are North America results. According to the report, the worldwide picture is quite different, with Symbian commanding a healthy 24% of worldwide requests.
On the US side, AdMob had previously reported in Dec 2009 that Android requests consisted of 27% of all smartphone requests, with iPhone having around 53%. RIM had 10% at the time. If the numbers can be trusted, it implies that both Android and iPhone are growing market share at RIM’s expense (this is no surprise considering RIM’s crappy browser experience and lack of competitive touch screen device).