Android crushes the competition – Efficiency Label

August 4, 2014 – If you have a smartphone, let’s guess. An Android operating system perhaps? Yes? You see … But it’s not such a difficult gamble. Meanwhile, Android is so dominant, that competition is almost wiped out. In the second quarter of 2014, the Android operating system appears to be. Installed worldwide at 84.6% of smartphones

At this time there is really no serious competition for smartphone operating system Android. As many as 84.6% of smartphones worldwide revolves now on. Strategy Analytics monitors the market for mobile operating systems and there is not really a serious competitor. Number two on the list, Apple’s iOS, has a market share of 11.9%. Windows systems fell back to 2.7% and 0.6% Blackberry has not even one percent. These figures are different in Europe and the United States because people can afford expensive devices or factually attached to Microsoft there.

Strategy Analytics hardly see change coming into this situation. Apple has failed to invest in cheaper smartphones, so it will get there. No impact on the market shares in time The only serious threat, according to the researchers, the OS Mozilla Firefox OS. This is sold with cheap smartphones, and the expectation is that it can only result if a large market share gain

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