iOS and Android Combined For Record 99% of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter (macrumors.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The research firm Gartner has crunched some numbers and found that Android and iOS accounted for a record 99.1% worldwide market share in the second calendar quarter of 2016, which is compared to 96.8% in the year-ago period. What some may view as even more shocking is that Android accounted for 86.2% of the market share in the second quarter, up from 82.2% a year ago. Meanwhile, iOS lost some ground as it dropped to 12.9% market share from 14.6% in the year-ago period. It's no surprise that Windows and BlackBerry have been losing market share. They dropped to 0.6% and 0.1% market share worldwide respectively. Just six years ago, BlackBerry and Symbian operating systems were industry leaders. Now, they're industry losers. Which third-party operating system has what it takes to take on the establishment?

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Re:12% is dangerously low

[Anonymous Coward]

iOS users spend more money than cheap-ass Android users. That's why it is still so relevant.

Sure, apps aren't exclusive to iOS much anymore, but the developers make more money from less user on iOS because they actually buy things.

iOS isn't going anywhere for quite a while.