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Smartphone Sales: Apple Squeezed, Blackberry Squashed, Android 81.3%

Posted by samzenpus on from the leader-of-the-pack dept.

mrspoonsi writes "Engadget reports: Smartphone market share for the third quarter...as you'd imagine, the world is still Android's oyster. Strategy Analytics estimates that the OS has crossed the symbolic 80 percent mark, reaching 81.3 percent of smartphone shipments by the end of September. Not that Google was the only company doing well — Nokia's strong US sales helped Windows Phone grow to 4.1 percent of the market, or nearly double what it had a year ago."

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  1. Apple Fanboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm an Apple Fanboy.
    I don't care how many Android phones get sold. LA LA LA hands in my ears. Antenna gate - LA LA LA hands in my ears. Apple makes all of the money HA HA HA, Apple is best HA HA HA. Apple has the best hardware HA HA HA. Apple don't sell out to NSA HA HA HA..

    Just thought i'd post it to save the Apple fanboys from dribbling all over this discussion forum.
    Now everyone else can get on and discuss the repercussions of Android's solid domination.

  2. Re:Apple made the same mistake by dfghjk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Mac had the worst SCSI implementation ever devised, had proprietary SCSI connectors, had the worst networking in the market, and had CPUs that lacked memory management hardware. Meanwhile, those 286's had complete protected memory subsystems. You are mistaken...what a surprise.