Android OS Captured 79% Share of Worldwide Smartphone Shipments in 2013

With 990 million smartphones being sold in 2013 according to Strategy Analytics, a major chunk of them belonged to the droid family. In fact, Android was present on 4 out of every 5 smartphones sold last year.

With 781million Android smartphones in consumers’ hands, Android held a solid 78.9 percent market share, up from 68.8 percent last year. A chunk of that growth came at the expense of Apple’s market share, which despite selling 153 million iPhones (up from 135 million in 2012) saw its market share shrink to 3.6 percent.

2013 also saw Windows Phone being firmly placed in the third spot. Although, with just 35.7 million smartphones sold, it could only capture 3.6 percent of the overall market. That’s not all that bad though, since the number is double of what Microsoft could manage in 2012.

See also: Reports: Global Smartphone Shipments Reach a First Time, Record 990 Million Units in 2013

SA expects slowdown of Android in 2014 due to the increasing competition. Meanwhile, BlackBerry has dropped out of the main list and joined others. That’s all we need to know how it performed in 2013.
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