Analyst Predicts Android Overtaking iPhone In 2012

Market watcher Gartner is claiming that by Q4 2012 Google's Android smartphone OS will have overtaken Apple's iPhone. Currently only the sixth most popular phone OS, Android is set to rocket into second place behind Symbian if the predictions are to be believed. The reason for the changing of the guard is that "many handset makers are betting their futures on Android, while Apple is just one company." 2012 rankings place Symbian at the top followed by Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry."

Comments

Is that you Ballmer?

[tylersoze]

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2007/04/ballmer-says-iphone-has-no-chance-to-gain-significant-market-share.ars

Re:WinMo trap

[LWATCDR]

But the iPhone isn't the top smart phone.
Blackberry is in the US and Symbian is in the world.

Android has the same advantage that Windows does on the Desktop.
Lots of vendors.
HTC, Motorola, and Samsung all have android phones. In the US you can get Android phones from T-Mobile with Sprint comming on line next week and Verizon coming soon.
LG I hear is also going to have an Android phone soon.

I wouldn't bet that Android doesn't come out with a bigger market share than Apple.

Of course I an still wondering why QNX never got into the smartphone market.