The growth of the global smartphone market has beaten
experts’ estimates [1]. According to IDC, as in Figure 1,
the combined market share of Android and iOS
Smartphones climbed above 90% in the 1st quarter of
2014. While it was predicted that 2014 would see an
increase in smartphone shipments compared to the feature
phone units, research predicts that as many as 1.2 billion
new smartphones are expected to be shipped this year.
According to market research by IDC, 1.2 billion new
smartphones would be shipped in 2014, of which over
950 million smartphones would be powered by Android
OS, thus accounting for nearly 79 percent of the
smartphone market share in 2014, to become the
invincible leader in the industry. iOS, which is at the
second spot, would have 14.9 percent market share with
nearly 180 million shipments.
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