No doubt that Apple with its famous iPhone and Android OS with its various smartphones are dominating the mobile phone market. Currently, the combined market share of the iPhone and Android terminals amounts to over 90%, 92% to be a bit more accurate.
As might be expected, Android takes the top spot with a market share of 70%, which equates to about 152 million smartphones sold, while Apple keeps 22%, or about 48 million iPhones. The remaining 8% belongs to various platforms and amounts to about 17 million smartphones.
In the course of a year, Android's share rose from 51% to 70%, up 19 points, which is a really huge growth. On their way, the Google platform over other like Symbian, Bada and some more. No doubt: Android is the undisputed leader in the mobile industry today.
Android's challenge to the 2013 will retain his position against a strong rival group will come up, such as Apple with its iPhone and Microsoft with Windows Phone.
In general, mobile sales grew 38% currently.
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