Global Mobile OS

Another Gartner table is worth mulling over. This is the operating system table shown below. As I have said in previous posts its clear whose winning the war. Android grew 100% in the last year moving market share up to 64%. Apple grew sales but only hung on to its market share of 18% as the total universe of sales grew. RIM lost a lot less that people think, Nokia's old "high end" lost the most as people turned off Nokia smartphones. Windows did indeed grow market share, but not much.

Operating            2Q12       2Q12       2Q11       2Q11
 System              Units     Market     Units      Market
                            Share (%)             Share (%)
 Android          98,529.3       64.1   46,775.9       43.4
 iOS              28,935.0       18.8   19,628.8       18.2
 Symbian           9,071.5        5.9   23,853.2       22.1
 Research In       7,991.2        5.2   12,652.3       11.7
 Motion                                           
 Bada              4,208.8        2.7    2,055.8        1.9
 Microsoft         4,087.0        2.7    1,723.8        1.6
 Others              863.3        0.6    1,050.6        1.0