Apple’s OS share skyrockets in February as Android inches up, BlackBerry slides

By on Mar 1, 2012 at 1:20 PM
mobile March 1, 2012

Apple’s share of global smartphone and tablet usage skyrocketed in February after remaining somewhat flat over the previous three months. Analytics firm Net Applications on Thursday released mobile phone and tablet operating system share data for February, and Apple showed the most gains last month by a wide margin. The Cupertino, California-based company saw its share increase to 60.59% from 53.65% in January as Android inched up less than a point to 19.02% and RIM’s BlackBerry platform slid nearly a point to 2.59%, it’s second lowest monthly share over the past 12 months. Java ME share of mobile and tablet operating system usage plummeted to 14.16% from 19.19% in January, and Symbian dropped to 2.77% from 5.20% over the same period. A chart outlining Net Applications’s data follows below.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=527073612 Lucian Armasu

    It’s the same misleading data from Net Applications once again. They release this every month.

    The numbers are so crazy misleading because they measure “time spent in a browser”, which means the iPad completely skews these numbers, because people spend more time in a tablet browser than in a phone browser (be that Android or an iPhone).

    But this has NOTHING to do with the “unit market share” of either Android or iOS. Google has just said that they have 300 million units on the market, and iOS has about the same. That’s all you need to know about total market share. As for “new sales market share”, Android has about 50% globally, and iOS around half of that, which means sales of Android devices are growing faster, and the total number will surpass the iOS devices, too, soon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507705044 Ian Vincent

    Alex Maldonado

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507705044 Ian Vincent

    Alex Maldonado

    Wrist slicer? Wonder where that came from. >.> Guilty of unwarranted conjecture as well. You’re on a roll, ace. If you yell loud enough, you won’t hear anyone else, I guess.

    I wonder if your ludicrous statement refers to Raziel in my profile picture? If so, he’s about as “bad ass” as one can get.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507705044 Ian Vincent

    Alex Maldonado

    Wrist slicer? Wonder where that came from. >.> Guilty of unwarranted conjecture as well. You’re on a roll, ace. If you yell loud enough, you won’t hear anyone else, I guess.

    I wonder if your ludicrous statement refers to Raziel in my profile picture? If so, he’s about as “bad ass” as one can get.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=507705044 Ian Vincent

    Alex Maldonado

    Wrist slicer? Wonder where that came from. >.> Guilty of unwarranted conjecture as well. You’re on a roll, ace. If you yell loud enough, you won’t hear anyone else, I guess.

    I wonder if your ludicrous statement refers to Raziel in my profile picture? If so, he’s about as “bad ass” as one can get.

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