Kantar: Android grows as iOS and Windows Phone decline in Q3

30 October, 2014
In Europe, Android takes 73.9% market share, while in the US it runs on 61.8% of smartphones.

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  • Anonymous
  • nE9
  • 30 Oct 2014

I wish British people went so brainwashed by the American media to buy so much into the iCult.

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    • hi
    • 9LA
    • 30 Oct 2014

    i think that that data is wrong....ios is better os and iphone devices always sells out as hot cookies.

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      • AnonD-1825
      • mhP
      • 30 Oct 2014

      yeip, 30 Oct 2014"Most people" sounds like BS unless you have rece... more"Apple rakes in more profits from its iPhones than all Android phones combined, despite the fact that Android phones command an 81 per cent market share to Cupertino's 12.1 per cent."

      Do the math, most of the profits comes from high end phones, if anyone else than samsung hardly making profit selling all of their phones, then clearly their high end phones doesnt sell almost at all and now even samsung high end sales are going down big time. Sametime Apple selling more and more iPhones.

      Its pretty safe to say that most of sold highend phones are iPhones.

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        • AnonD-158376
        • P@L
        • 30 Oct 2014

        Windows Phone isn't decline.. There is no major new device announce at this quarter. Also the partnership deal of Nokia and Microsoft takes some time.

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          • Boucha
          • KAd
          • 30 Oct 2014

          don't compare Android and ios
          ios devices are costly bt android available low cost mobile.
          so IOS is better becouse if android phone il sale 50,000 or above 50,000 few ppl only il buy....

          if apple relese cheap ios mobile lik starting 3000
          what ill happen????

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            • fonehunter
            • wHr
            • 30 Oct 2014

            WP slowly dying, again.

            I see chinese manufacturers are getting innovative and very competitive, which is kind of killing the bigger brands. Problem is, if the big companies dies off, will these chinese brands still be able to innovate? We know for a long time that these manufacturers just mix and match designs and engineering from other brands.

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              • yeip
              • N9x
              • 30 Oct 2014

              AnonD-1825, 30 Oct 2014Most of people who buy high end phone choose iPhone So y... more"Most people" sounds like BS unless you have recent statistics to back that up.
              Anyone can make up "facts".

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                • AnonD-278921
                • t}T
                • 30 Oct 2014

                others lead blackberry os.good show :3

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                  • AnonD-1825
                  • mhP
                  • 30 Oct 2014

                  Android Man, 30 Oct 2014proof is in the figures. Android is the best OS in the worl... moreMost of people who buy high end phone choose iPhone

                  So yes that say it all

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                    • AnonD-322662
                    • rA@
                    • 30 Oct 2014

                    Wp need to refine it's UI tiles are good but kinda boring..... But for fluidity thumbs up WP

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                      • Android Man
                      • mqM
                      • 30 Oct 2014

                      proof is in the figures. Android is the best OS in the world. As i work in the mobile industry. Majority of people tend to buy Android. And if they do buy an IOS device. it tends to be for the higher end of the market people. Plus you can get a budget iphone decent specced, for less than £150, again that says it all.

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                        • AnonD-244070
                        • U@H
                        • 30 Oct 2014

                        I own android and Wp . I think Wp is more superior os . Only thing I see wrong in the os is ui. I don't want the ui as android or ios but it needs change in ui.tiles are good but becomes so boring after few days.

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                          • AnonD-274519
                          • pWQ
                          • 30 Oct 2014

                          Not a surprise, Android is the best mobile OS for me - I'll keep on buying Android-phones in future.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 3I{
                            • 30 Oct 2014

                            The good is that if one OS must dominate that it then is the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) one. Perfect. And thank you Microsoft/Ballmer for missing the opportunities to dominate the internet as well as mobile among others. Because if you hadn't then we'd all be living in a straight jacket now.

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                              • DeDeTe
                              • 0cJ
                              • 30 Oct 2014

                              Anonymous, 30 Oct 2014I use both iOS and Android but Android looks more modern an... moreNot my experience at all.

                              I also use both, but just switched back to the iPhone 6+ as my daily phone.

                              Best phone I have ever had and iOS 8 is a little better than Kit Kat, for me.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • 0cZ
                                • 30 Oct 2014

                                I use both iOS and Android but Android looks more modern and has better usability and services. Furthermore, while Android gets better and faster with every release, iOS gets buggier and laggier such as going from iOS 6 to 7 and moreso from 7 to 8.

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                                  • AnonD-319406
                                  • 6uh
                                  • 30 Oct 2014

                                  European thumbs up