Android and iOS dominate the smartphone market – Softonet

Among the creators of mobile operating systems continues fierce struggle, but only Apple and Google can boast of success in this field. Such conclusions can we draw from the analysis of the smartphone market, prepared by IDC. The recent report shows that as many as 96.3% of all smart phone runs on Android and iOS.

Microsoft recently been working very hard over the occurrence on mobile platform competition. Increasingly, provides applications designed for Android and iOS users forgetting about Windows Phone. This may suggest that the Redmond company is well aware of the low popularity of its operating system, not only among users but also developers, and uses the mobile platform Apple and Google to promote their products. This situation may change in the near future with the release of Windows 10 for smartphones, but for verification plan for the unification of the window of the operating system on a variety of platforms, we will have to wait.

At the moment, we can only say so much that in 2014. Windows Phone work on 34.9 million smartphones, which is only 2 7% of the market, and it is also the result worse by 0.6 percentage point from a year earlier obtained. On a very conservative policy for Microsoft gained Apple and Google, which divided among themselves until 96.3% of the market. A company with a Mountain View can celebrate another year of dominance in the segment operating systems designed for smartphones with an impressive result of 81.5% market share, which translates to 1,059 billion phones running Android. According to analysts, such a high score Google owes mainly a large number of budget devices running the little robots, after which more and more often users. Reasons not have to worry as Apple, which offers its clients a few smartphones, but managed to grab 14.8% of the market at the same time noting the interest in slight decline compared with 15.1% in 2013.

Further down the popularity classification of mobile operating systems into a BlackBerry and all aspects of other , which are divided among themselves the remaining 1% of smartphones.