Market Share
Research company Canalys estimates that by Q2, 2009, Android had a 2.8% share of the worldwide smartphone market.
By the following quarter (Q3 2009), Android’s market share had grown to 3.5%.
In February 2010 ComScore ranked the Android platform as obtaining a 9.0% of the smartphone platform marketshare. This figure was up from an earlier estimate of 5.2% stated in November 2009.
In October, 2009, Gartner Inc. predicted that by 2012, Android would become the world’s second most popular smartphone platform, behind Nokia’s Symbian OS, which is very popular outside the US. Meanwhile, BlackBerry would fall from 2nd to 5th place, iPhone would remain in 3rd place, and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile would remain in 4th place.
Taiwan’s Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) predicted that in 2013, 31.8 million Android phones and 126 million Android-based portable products would ship.
Analytics firm Flurry estimates that 250,000 Motorola Droid phones were sold in the United States during the phone’s first week in stores.
On April 2010, GfK said that Android handsets accounted for 12.3% of all phones sold to customers signing up for a long-term mobile phone contract in week 15 of 2010 – the week ending on April 18 – compared with just 3% of the market in week 12, the last week of March. In terms of the total market, Android’s share grew from 1.6% to 6.7% during the period.
On Jun 2010 Nielsen has released their latest smartphone OS market share numbers, and despite previous reports, it appears that the iPhone OS still has a clear lead over Android.
RIM BlackBerrys were still the clear leader, at 35 percent, but quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) the OS lost 2 percent share.
The Apple iPhone was in second at 28 percent, seeing strong 2 percent growth QoQ. Microsoft’s struggling Windows Mobile platform lost 2 percent to 19 percent, but still good for third place.
The up and coming Android platform grew 2 percent, as well, to 9 percent and continues to see strong growth since its launch in late 2008.
On August 2010 Gartner released its numbers for worldwide mobile device sales for the second quarter of 2010. On Q2 2010 Android overtaked Apple’s iOS to take third position, and 17.2% of smartphone operating systems.
