Android Will Attain 45 Percent Of Smartphone Marketplace By 2016

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Apr 19, 2011 3:44 PM, By Debra Kaufman

ABI Research reported that 302 million smartphones shipped in 2010, a 71 percent expansion over 2009. As smartphone sales have increased, so has Android's share of the marketplace. According to the investigate firm, roughly 69 million smartphones running the Android OS shipped in 2010, and by 2016, the investigate definite predicts Android will act for 45 percent of the market. Part of that expansion will be due to the disappearance of the Symbian working system; Samsung 's Bada and BlackBerry are moreover approaching to suffer a few expansion is to same reason.

Elsewhere, comScore expelled information stating commentary formed on a consult of 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers in the U.S. during the three-month time finale February 2011. The study suggested that Samsung is the tip handset producer with 24.8 percent marketplace share and Google Android enjoyed a 33 percent marketplace share.

With courtesy to the expansion of other mobile working systems, ABI Research likely that Apple will moreover suffer a few expansion in the forthcoming 5 years. The company hold a 15 percent marketplace share in 2010 and, by 2016, is predict to have a 19 percent marketplace share. Although RIM , that had 16 percent of the marketplace in 2010, is approaching to remove 2 percent of that share by 2016, that loss doesn't act for decreased shipments but simply a not as big part of a burgeoning consumer market.

Samsung's newly introduced Bada might attain a 10 percent marketplace share by 2016, from its stream location of 1.5 percent share. Windows Phone 7 , however, has a steeper slope and contingency accomplish success with its Nokia duct to attain a 7 percent marketplace share by 2016.