The race for the lead is on! Numbers are increasing consistently and Nielsen has the results spreading around the web like wildfires. According to November data from The Nielsen Company, the popularity of the Android OS among those who purchased a smartphone in the last six months (40%) makes it the leading OS among recent acquirers. This is the most recent recording available.
When it comes to overall consumer market share, according to Nielsen, Android OS (25.8%) is still behind Apple iOS (28.6%). RIM Blackberry’s position is (26.1%) putting it within the margin of error of both Apple iOS and Android. In other words, RIM remains statistically tied with both Apple for first and Android for third. Did you expect to hear that?
We can tell from these results that all three smartphone OS leaders – Apple iOS, RIM Blackberry and Android are benefitting from strong demand for smartphones. In November, 45 percent of recent acquirers chose a smartphone over a feature phone. Guess we can say the world is relying more on technology in phones these days. Would you agree? Let us know what you think about these results.
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Well as much as I don’t like apple the iphone is only one device on one carrier compared to blackberry and android which have multiple devices on multiple carriers. I am curious to see what these graphs will turn out to be once verizon releases their version of the iphone.
That actually kind of makes Apple’s market share less impressive if you ask me, and technically there are about 10 different iPhone models on AT&T – 2G, 3G, 3GS, 4, and then there’s the 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, etc, also a lot of people in the US use them on T-Mobile too, and other GSM providers. Also, it may be limited to one carrier (unless you unlock), but the iPhone (can’t find specs) has to make up like 75% or more of all of AT&T’s customers.
@brandogg – Come on bro, regardless of memory capacity of the phone its still one device aka one design per year aka one form factor. Sure it can be jailbroken and used on another gsm carrier but it is only officially available on one carrier here in the U.S. Now compare that to how many different android handsets by different manufacturers that are available on the market right now on all carriers in the U.S. If apple had an official iphone for each carrier here in the US do you honestly think this chart would have been close?
if iphone had multiple devices they would still more then likely still share the same users, just those users would have more choices. by iphone going to another carrier will definitely help those numbers slow but i believe its too late for iphone, by iphone going to verizon i don’t think it is the same big deal that it wouldve been if they did it a year ago. a year ago iphone would have dominated the marketshare if iphone went to verizon, if iphone goes to verizon now i believe it will still be big but it won’t be BIG, android has penetrated the market too much.
I don’t know about all these graphs, but I do like the word penetrate. And I really like the idea of the little Android guy penetrating the competition because that shows he is making them his bitches…
@rainfreak – Well said rainfreak. Well said indeed.