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Latest market share figures from IDC show that Android accounted for 75% of all the smartphones sold in the third quarter of the year. The figure represents a 17.5% increase from the same period last year, as well as a massive 91.5% increase in shipments, up to a record 136 million for the quarter.
iOS is lagging behind in second place, with a small increase to 14.9%, although the continued expansion of the smartphone market meant that the company still managed to increase its sales by more than 57%.
BlackBerry and Symbian continued their fall into the abyss, with 34% and 77% decline in sales respectively, while Windows Phone more than doubled its market share, but has a very long way to go with just 2% of the market.
Top Six Smartphone Mobile Operating Systems, Shipments, and Market Share, Q3 2012, via IDC
| Operating System |
3Q12 Shipment Volumes |
3Q12 Market Share |
3Q11 Shipment Volumes |
3Q11 Market Share |
Year Over Year Change |
| Android |
136.0 |
75.0% |
71.0 |
57.5% |
91.5% |
| iOS |
26.9 |
14.9% |
17.1 |
13.8% |
57.3% |
| BlackBerry |
7.7 |
4.3% |
11.8 |
9.5% |
-34.7% |
| Symbian |
4.1 |
2.3% |
18.1 |
14.6% |
-77.3% |
| Windows Phone 7/ Windows Mobile |
3.6 |
2.0% |
1.5 |
1.2% |
140.0% |
| Linux |
2.8 |
1.5% |
4.1 |
3.3% |
-31.7% |
| Others |
0.0 |
0.0% |
0.1 |
0.1% |
-100.0% |
| Totals |
181.1 |
100.0% |
123.7 |
100.0% |
46.4% |
