Phones operating on the Android and iOS operating systems comprised...
Phones operating on the Android and iOS operating systems comprised 91.1 percent of all smartphones shipped in Q4, International Data Corp. (IDC) said Thursday. Android vendors and Apple shipped 207.6 million smartphones globally in Q4 -- up from 122 million…
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at the same time in 2011, IDC said. Vendors for the two systems shipped 87.6 percent of the smartphones shipped worldwide during all of 2012, up from a 68.1 percent share in 2011. Those figures showed “the dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark” during the quarter, said Ramon Llamas, IDC’s mobile phone research manager, in a news release. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 and BlackBerry’s BlackBerry 10 operating systems are “poised for competition,” but it will take time to make up ground Android and Apple have gained, IDC said. “There is no question the road ahead is uphill for both Microsoft and BlackBerry, but history shows us consumers are open to change,” said Ryan Reith, IDC’s program manager-Mobile Device Trackers. “Platform diversity is something not only the consumers have asked for, but also the operators” (http://xrl.us/bogyqh).