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The challenge in 2013 for Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and even smaller upstart phone operating systems is simple to grow enough to matter. That helps account for Androids staggering market share. While 2011 saw 64 percent in smartphone shipments, 2012’s growth rate was a slightly more moderate 43 percent.īut it’s clear that the market has become a tale of two mobile operating systems: Android and iOS. The massive numbers obscure that growth, while still torrid, is slowing. “Combined together, Apple and Android accounted for a record 92 percent share of all smartphones shipped globally in the fourth quarter of 2012.” “Apple grew 29 percent annually and shipped 47.8 million smartphones worldwide for 22 percent marketshare in Q4 2012, dipping slightly from 24 percent a year earlier,” Scott Bicheno, a senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, added. Nokia still ships a lot of units - 335.6 million in 2012 - but most of them are not modern smartphones. Smartphone OS worldwide market share from 2007 to 2019.I am a first year PhD student, data geek and I love visualizations.As always your feedback is wel. Apple shipped 135.8 phones last year, all smartphones, of course, while Samsung shipped 396.5 million phones, most of them smartphones. Phone shipments in general reached 1.6 billion in 2012, meaning that smartphones still made up slightly less than half of all phones sold. In terms of manufacturing, the global smartphone industry is basically two companies: Apple and Samsung. “Android is clearly the undisputed volume leader of the smartphone industry at the present time.” “Almost half-a-billion Android smartphones were shipped in total worldwide during 2012,” the firm’s executive director Neil Mawston said in a statement.