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Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market
eldavojohn writes "Gartner's released a report on worldwide numbers of 2012 3Q phone sales and the staggering results posted from Android have caused people like IW's Eric Zeman to call for sanity. Keep in mind these are worldwide numbers, which might be less surprising when you realize that the biggest growth market of them all is China, which is more than 90% Android. It's time to face the facts and realize that Android now owns 73% of the worldwide smartphone market. While developers bicker over which platform is best for development and earnings, the people of the world may be making the choice based on just how inexpensive an Android smartphone can be. This same time last year, Gartner reported Android at 52.5% of market share and it now sits at 72.4% market share with over 122 million units sold worldwide."
iPhone vs Android flamewar in 3, 2, ...
But BB10 is going to change everything!
This is true. Android/Windowz/BB/whoever are losers who don't know you need to pay a good chunk of change for a telephone. I'm proud that my rugged industrial case has a giant hole in the back just so the Apple logo shows through. It allows people to see that I'm awesome without having to waste my time talking to these idiots. Apple needs to litigate their competitors(copiers) out of the market. Apple invented the smartphone, it's their pie. Stop eating out of it.
Maybe because you want the company, and the android ecosystem as a whole, to thrive?
LOOKS LIKE IT'S A THRIVIN'!
Not everyone needs a $600 smartphone, and it's an oversight on Apple's part.
Not an oversight. They chose to give up on that 47%. They will never buy Apple stuff anyway.
wait till the Lumia 1120 gets released in 2017 - THAT will be the game-changer.
...Windows on the smartphone.
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Reminds me of one of my favorite stories: The Speed-up Loop.
More Twoson than Cupertino
and 73% of worldwide does not spell "THRIVE" to you?
Walmart profits on necessity spending. How many cell phone apps fall into that category?
Google Maps for the new iPhone comes to mind.
Yep, I'm betting in 5 years Android will be more like 90% of the market.
Egads! I hope the EU courts don't force them to install Internet Explorer or Safari for being a monopoly.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
A cheap unlocked Android phone would be a Nexus 4, which is within $50 of that price, and does, indeed, run the latest version of the OS.
And can we give it a rest with the "latest version" crap? The 3GS version of iOS doesn't have the same operating system level features as the iPhone 5 version. The version number in iOS's case simply refers to a bundling of a specific API with certain libraries, not a common OS across multiple platforms differing only by device drivers.
If Microsoft offered something called "Windows 8" that ran on 80386 CPUs, and used cooperative multiple tasking, lacked the Explorer, requiring you use progman.exe instead, and wouldn't address more than four megs of RAM, we wouldn't say it was the "same version" as the version on your funky Surface tablet.
Oh. My. God. I just used a computer analogy. Woah. On Slashdot. Not a car analogy, a computer analogy. One something involving computers. That's just not right.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.