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99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com)
The latest smartphone figures from Gartner show how much iOS and Android are dominating the smartphone market. According to the report, Android and iOS accounted for 99.6 percent of all smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2016. For comparison, this figure was 96.8 percent in the second quarter of 2015. The Verge reports: Of the 432 million smartphones sold in the last quarter, 352 million ran Android (81.7 percent) and 77 million ran iOS (17.9 percent), but what happened to the other players? Well, in the same quarter, Windows Phone managed to round up 0.3 percent of the market, while BlackBerry was reduced to a rounding error. The once-great firm sold just over 200,000 units, amounting to 0.0 percent market share. It's worth noting that although, in retrospect, this state of affairs seems inescapable, for years analysts were predicting otherwise. Three years ago, Gartner said that Microsoft's mobile OS would overtake iOS for market share in 2017, while BlackBerry would still be hanging around as sizable (if small) player.
Proves the worth of analysts. Gartner is just a Microsoft shill.
Blackberry OS is mostly dead, tizen and so on never really started and other custom OS run on phones which are not called smartphones.
What makes me feel like this is just some bullshit marketng post is, how do you sell 0.4 of a phone, or 0.9 of a phone... All of those "units sold" should be whole numbers.
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He could have Made Microsoft Great Again by being the option that gives control and privacy to the end user.
Instead, he tried to be a second rate Google on connectivity, and a second rate Apple on user experience.
And that's exactly where he's ended up.
Well done, Nutella, you've set out to achieve exactly what you wanted.
Its pretty clear from Gartner's predictions 3 years ago which company was paying them the most money among M$, Apple and others.
Gartner's predictions eerily parallel the amount of money vendors pay them yet it never seems to matter to them or their customers that they are so consistently wrong.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
That means a bunch of old people got duped into buying a cell with Windows Phone. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves! ;)
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And yet none of them run Linux, despite toasters running linux in the 90's. Yes, 'dominating' is the correct term. In a free market, none of those shit 'OS' would be used very much. Spyruses is more like it.
Nobody except Gartner believes most of what they predict anyway. Did anyone really think that Microsofts n-th attempt to make a phone OS would be any more successful than the previous ones?
I'm surprised that Blackberry fell so deep, because it still has a strong foothold in the finance and some other highly security-conscious industries (military, etc.) and some of its security features are still unique.
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SO let me get this correct Garner spent money to tell to find out that android and IOS are the two most popular mobile OS's.. DUH....
Just think what we would do without it.
\>tfw I piad $40 for a 128gb micro sd card and plugged it into my phone
If a major provider offered Blackberry as the *free* phone, touted it's business friendly application and purported it was a safer alternative, used less power, non-exploding batteries, still has a headphone jack, uses a normal charging cord, it's TSA approved, etc. (I know, not all that is true), then the Blackberry would have a significant increase in the market.
IOW, when something is offered as free or included at very low price, it'll have a significant market share.
It's the old Gillette marketing ploy.
I guess I'm some sort of a very rare hipster for buying a Lumia 950
I thought that was well known by now.
Could someone recommend to me a good dumbphone with calendar and scheduling applications that has as long a battery life as possible?
My Android phone is always out of battery whenever I try it, and I'm not using any of its features anyway, and it's also insecure. So I'm really looking for some alternative with better battery life.
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The best way to be within the 0.1% ;-)
On top of a Fairphone hardware for instance...
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If 432 million smart phones are sold per quarter that is 1.6 billion per year. One group predicts around 4.77 billion cell phone users by the end of 2017, though that includes both smart phones and less sophisticated phones. If we said that half of those phones are smart that means the number of smart phones is somewhere around 2.4 billion. We already know we are closing in on saturation as the remainder of the world's ~6.8 billion people are not necessarily potential customers for cell service.
So if 1.6 billion of the 2.4 billion smart phones in use today were purchased in the past year, does that suggest that on average over half the world's smart phones last under a year?
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...I hope that we can come together and agree that it's sad and hilarious that companies like Gartner exist and consistently make such completely asinine predictions about anything at all.
Every year some analyst predicts something absolutely stupid that all of us know is impossible. I hope whoever made this call knows that they are bad and they should feel bad.
Most people use the telephone or the internet for long-distance communication . . .
Hillary lost. Still crying over it.
The news is to the right of the decimal point. We all knew it was 99 point something.
That Windows finally makes it to the smartphone.
No love for my JAVA OS run phone?