As the year winds down, industry leader in mobile OS statistics NPD has set out to see who’s grabbing most of the mobile OS sales, as well as the OSes that are floating around, or even dead in the water. The latest from NPD is a year by year record of how mobile OSes feared. The study found that Android was able to capture 53 percent of the smartphone market share to be the number one OS by sales, Apple came in second with a 29 percent margin, RIM with 10 percent, and Windows Phone still doing worst than Windows Mobile with 2 percent of the pie. Check the chart out below.
It’s important to note that when you compare the 2011 OS market share to Q2 OS market share, Android has since grown by 1 percent, while Apple has capped off at 29 percent. It’s also important to note that although the iPhone has been having a record number of sales, the smart phone market is constantly expanding, and that majority of the people buying iPhones are already previous iPhone users. So what happens is similar to what occurs when the birth rate and death rate are the same: the population stops growing. Just a few things to keep in mind.
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