Google publishes a monthly series of numbers on the fragmentation of the
mobile platform. Early this year is no exception to the rule.
According to the study conducted by IDC in the third quarter of 2013, Android
holds 81% market share worldwide . It would thus arrive on the top spot,
ahead iOS (12.9%), Windows Phone (3.6%) and BlackBerry (1.7%). In total,
Google and its partners have sold over 211 million units over the same period.
Dashboards offered by the company allow us to have a clearer and more
precise state park idea. Note that these measures are based on data actually
collected by the latest Play Store. Only devices running Android 2.2 and are
thus included in the study.
If you believe the last panel of the firm, Jelly Bean is currently installed on
59.1% of the terminal , against 54.5% last month : 35.9% for Jelly Bean
4.1.x, 15.4% for Jelly Bean 4.2.x and 7.8% for Jelly Bean 4.3.x. KitKat
continue its peaceful rise and it would have been installed on 1.4% of the
terminal, or 0.3% more than last month. This is not surprising because only
the Nexus can officially enjoy the moment.
Ice Cream Sandwich, Honeycomb, Gingerbread and Froyo does not seem to
have said their last word they are installed respectively 16.9%, 0.1%, 21.2%
and 1.3% of smartphones and tablet devices running Android, which is all-
own a total of 39.5%.
For comparison and according to the data shown on this page , iOS 7 was
installed on over 78% of iPhone, iPod and iPad outstanding. Are these figures
are really comparable? Hard to say, but one thing is certain: Apple is the only
one to produce iOS devices. Google, it works with most manufacturers in the
market and they are the ones who ultimately choose to update their mobile
and their slates.
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