Smartphone market share: Android overhauls iOS

In the second quarter 2010 Android clearly added: Completely contrary to the prior year quarters world-wide more devices with Googles mobile operating system were delivered than with Apple iOS.

While Apple in the second quarter had 2009 with 13% market share opposite Googles 1.8% still another clear projection/lead, it looks this year a little differently: on 17,2% of all sold devices Android runs, iOS only on 14,2%. In absolute numbers the leap for Android is still more impressing: 755.000 sold Smartphones in the last year faces over 10 million in this year. Apple removed at the same time the paragraph “only” of 5,3 to 8.7 million devices.

Profited both of the rapidly growing Smartphone market. As is to be recognized in the table, over 61 million in the second quarter 2010 1,5mal as many Smartphones were also sold as in the period last year (40 million). The large advantage on Googles side is here the abundance at manufacturers, that offer Android devices. Apple, Nokia (although quite many) and RIM equip excluding self-developments with their operating systems. Thus there were only three different iPhones on the market, on the other hand over 20 different models with Android.

The total allocation of the market is in addition interesting: Where winners are, since are also always losers and so the competition in the comparison suffers strongly from growth of Android and iOS. Nokia and RIM with their Symbian and/or Blackberry devices could likewise register more sales than last year. The market share was reduced for Symbian however of 51% on only 41.2%, Blackberry runs only on 18,2% instead of on 19% the sold Smartphones.

On the whole line against it Microsoft lost: The market share of Windows Mobile fell of 9,3% on only 5%, in addition nearly 800,000 devices were sold less. The company from talking moon promises itself with release of Windows Phone 7 however a large comeback.

Not at all in the table WebOS emerges, which is continued using after the buying up of Palm now of HP. Web OS devices seem to probably sell itself so badly that they are to be found with other less successful systems under the category “Others”.

A further reference in the end: The overwhelming sales start iPhone 4 of the reporting period is not covered. The comparison for the third quarter running now becomes accordingly interesting.