Android Market Share 2013
According to Canalys, 59% of notebook, tablet and smart phone shipped in Q1 this year were powered by Android. Thus Android OS holds the highest share of smart mobile device shipment followed by Apple with 19.3% and Microsoft with 18.1% share. Continue reading
According to a May 2013 Android OS distribution report across devices, Gingerbread is still the top OS with 38.5% of devices currently running the OS. Continue reading
According to the recent press release by Canalys, in the first quarter of 2013, Google play has received the highest download which is 51% of 13.4 billion downloads received among major app stores such as Google Play, Apple’s App Store, Blackberry World and Windows Phone Store. A total of 13.4 billion apps were downloaded worldwide in these app stores generating a whopping
$2.2 billion in app revenue. The highest revenue earner, however, Continue reading
According to IDC’s Japan Quarterly Mobile Device Tracker of total mobile phone shipments in Japan in 4Q, 77.9% were smart phones which is 22.2% increase compared to last year. In terms of operating system, Android is still on top with 57.8% share beating OS for the second straight quarter. The total smartphone shipment for the full year 2012 was 28.5 million units. Continue reading
According to the latest report from Kantar, at the end of February 2013, Google’s Android has taken the lead in the US mobile market with 51% share of the total mobile segment. Apple ios comes second with 43%. Only last year Apple was at the top with 47% and Android second with 45%. Continue reading
Opera Mediaworks, an Opera Software company, today published its Q4 State of the Mobile Advertising report, sharing key mobile advertising data and trends from the last quarter of 2012. The source of the data is the company’s extensive mobile advertising platform, which serves 50+ billion ad impressions per month via 12,000 mobile sites and apps, delivering a total of $400 million in revenue to mobile publishers in 2012. Continue reading
Chitika insights recently conducted a study regarding the OS fragmentation or usage percentage among six versions of Android OS- Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich and the latest Jelly Bean. The study showed that Gingerbread had the highest usage of 42%, followed by Ice Cream Sandwich 34.3 %, Jelly Bean 13.6%, Froyo 7.9% and Eclair 1%. WE can see that Gingerbread though an old OS, still has a far better share than the latest Jelly Bean. This is because many carriers and hardware vendors take a lot of time to bring new OS updates for their devices and consumers must wait for those releases. Continue reading