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Analyst Predicts Android Overtaking iPhone In 2012

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the crystal-balls-and-voodoo dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Can we please stop quoting "Analysts"?? by farble1670 · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's an awfully big word, are you sure you are qualified to use it?

  2. Re:I dont' see it this way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So uh, a fraction of the app options on a handset that feels like .08 worth of plastic... but it does have multi-touch too... how far behind? How's that app and music store + software combo experience working out?

    Look, I'd love to see Android phones do better. Apple are HORRIBLE about being antisocial dickheads. But these android phone offerings actually have to be BETTER before people will buy them like they buy iphones.