"We shipped 1 million Android devices in 2014 '- Elsevier

by Servaas van der Laan Jun 24, 2013

Android phones remain popular

The growth of the Android operating system continues unabated hard, as Gartner predicts at least. The market analyst looks ahead to 2014 and expects to be.

there are over 1 billion Android devices shipped

Although Gartner in its analysis looks at the sales of PCs, tablets and smartphones, do not keep up. both Microsoft and Apple their biggest competitor Android shipped the next two years even more devices than Microsoft (Windows, Windows Phone) and Apple (iOS, OS X) together.

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Gartner expects Google in 2013 a total of 867 million new Android devices will ship, what should grow to 1.06 billion.

2014

Apple sees the number of shipped devices also increase, from 296 million in 2013 to 355 million in 2014. At Microsoft, it has grown more widely, from 340 to 378 million

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Falling PC sales

The success of smartphones and tablets ensures that the PC market is in difficult situation will be.

in 2013 and again in 2014

“The number of PCs shipped worldwide in 2013 will reach 305 million,” writes Gartner. “A decrease of 10.6 percent compared to 2012.” In 2014 are expected to 289 million PCs and laptops are output.