[General] Android to overtake iPhone in 2012

[bashar abdullah]

Something funny about Gartner is, every company under certain specific
criteria has their product as #1  from Gartner that I stopped caring about
it :P

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
<bashar at kuwaitnet.net>wrote:

> "Google’s Android will have more than quadrupled its market share by the
> end of 2012, market watcher Gartner has claimed. But Symbian looks set to
> remain the dominant smartphone OS for several years to come.
>
> Android’s market share stood at a paltry 1.6 per cent during Q1 2009, but
> will grow to 14.5 per cent by the time Q4 2012 rolls around, Gartner
> forecast, based on an estimated 522m smartphones shipping worldwide during
> the period.
>
> As a result, Android will move from its current position as the sixth most
> popular operating system for smartphones to become the second most popular,
> Gartner said.
>
> The main reason for Android’s market share growth will, Gartner VP Ken
> Dulaney told website AppleInsider, be because “unlike Apple, they [Google]
> license their OS to multiple OEMs”.
>
> Dulaney said many handset makers are betting their futures on Android,
> while Apple is just one company.
>
> Speaking of Apple, its share of the smartphone OS market will also grow -
> but only from 10.8 per cent to 13.7 per cent, Gartner said.
>
> Symbian will remain the most popular OS. However, its market share will
> drop from 49.3 per cent during Q1 2009 to 39 per cent by Q4 2012.
>
> Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS is currently the second most popular
> handset OS, Gartner said, with a Q1 2009 market share of 19.9 per cent. But
> it will slip to fifth place by Q4 2012 with market share of just 12.5 per
> cent.
>
> Windows Mobile's share will grow from 10.3 per cent to 12.8 per cent during
> the same quarters, Gartner added, which will see it remain as the fourth
> most popular phone-based OS. ®"
>
> originally from
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/09/android_2012_gartner/
>
>
>
> :)
>
>
>
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