Android already responsible for over 80% of the smartphone market - CHIP

According to the report, Android has exceeded the 80% nominal. More specifically: Gartner estimates that the current share of the global Android smartphone market is now 81.9%. In comparison with 2012, an increase of 9.3%. Apple, in turn, allegedly recorded a fall – their share decreased by 2.2% and now stands at 12.1%. Microsoft slowly teases some joke that almost imperceptibly bottoming out – phones with Windows Phone is now 3.6% of the shares – and higher sales in Nokia and LG are very helpful to Microsoft.

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Google hailed as the winner of the race, let’s look at the details. China accounts for 41% of all Android devices sold in the quarter. Most smartphones are buying Chinese do not use the official store of Google applications (Google Play), so anything that Google does not make money. Analyst Benedict Evans suggests that only 6% of all applications installed in China comes from Google Play.

Another important detail is Apple. More specifically the latest iPhones Company 5c 5s and that exist on the market long enough to have a real impact on shares of Apple in terms of smartphone market. A fuller and more realistic picture of the situation should get at the end of this year.