According to research by analyst firm Strategy Analytics, nearly 85% of smartphones sold worldwide work based on Android. iOS takes second place with 12%, while Windows Phone - less than 3%. Data relevant to the II quarter of 2014.
In comparison with the same quarter a year earlier Android-devices share in sales of new smart phones increased from 80.2% to 84.6%. The market of such devices is growing rapidly, so sales growth "guglofonov" in the piece even more impressive: from 186.8 million to 249.6 million units. Pace of annual sales of Android-based phones could reach billion.
Market share, which takes iPhone for the year decreased from 13.4% to 11.9%. While sales in pieces "apple" communicators are still growing - with 31.2 million sold in April-June 2013, they jumped to 35.2 million units. And here at the Windows Phone gloomy situation. Declining as a share of the market (from 3.8 to 2.7%), and the absolute volumes of sales - with 8.9 million unit in the II quarter of 2013 to 8,000,000 in 2014.
Strategy Analytics Experts say that a substantial increase in demand for Android-smartphone manufacturers have provided cheap devices. The report mentions a number of companies from India, China and Africa.
Total second quarter of 2014 was 295 million sold "umnofonov", which is 27% higher than a year earlier. The greatest progress has shown the Chinese company Xiaomi, which put 15.1 million smartphones (5%) compared to 4.1 million raised in the same quarter last year. She took fifth place in the market in terms of unit shipments in terms of delivery.