Gartner: Android dominance continues, iPhone growth slows

14 August, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy line accounted for over half of all Android phones sold in Q2 of this year.

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Anonymous, 14 Aug 2012I think when Gartner tries to post his article and calculat... moreHow does That give better accuracy of dominance? It doesn't matter, Android is still selling more regardless of profit. Profit mean nothing, especially if Apple is over charging. You have to also remember that there are some pretty crappy android devices that poor people buy. For example, the Coby tablets at Target.

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    • 14 Aug 2012

    Common NOKIA gear up! Gear up! Gear up! You and only you deserve the no.1 spot...

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      • 14 Aug 2012

      I think when Gartner tries to post his article and calculates his report he should take models using android and how many handsets are released with the android OS and then compare with the IOS and models and handset using IOS, that will give proper calculations for the dominance....also he should take the profits into consideration...which will make his reports right...as Apple is leading way ahead in terms of profits.

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        AnonD-5264, 14 Aug 2012wait n watch....if NOKIA ever come up with Android...samsun... moreIf Nokia decides to go Android, then it only proves their incompetence

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          • 14 Aug 2012

          AnonD-30131, 14 Aug 2012I see what you mean there..but the Manufacturer & OS un... moreYes, unit sales are the same in both because Apple are the only manufacturer that sell iOS and Apple products.

          Android is sold by lots of different manufacturers, who also sell non-andropid phones. Look at the total units sold figures at the bottom of each chart - a lot more are being included in the second one. So that 28,935K works out to be much smaller as a % in the second chart

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            • 14 Aug 2012

            No surprises...samsung deserves the number one spot..but I foresee kilometer-long lines of people waiting to buy iphone 5 when it's launched..nokia should have realised by now that they're not going enywhere with winmo..the only thing I don't understand is how come these huawei and zte are ahead of established brands like lg and htc who clearly produce better phones..

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              • 14 Aug 2012

              AnonD-66810, 14 Aug 2012This article only give us birdview result. In my opinion to... moreFortunately for us all your not in charge of stats for the economy! i4S is not same as SGS2 or BB

              I think your point was to say that this doesn't compare apples to apples (oh - bad pun!). The first table pretty much does.

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                • 14 Aug 2012

                AnonD-45270, 14 Aug 2012If apple released three diffrnt phones in a year...they sur... moreSure, including new features everybody wants such as an smaller SIM card!, yeah, same phone, but it has an smaller SIM, how innovative!

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                  • 14 Aug 2012

                  BADA again...... love u bada insult insult insult from everywhere everybody but time proved who is right yes we havent lot more apps &games, HTC one ,sony experia,samsung galaxy,LG Optimus, motorola razor too many androidsss but we made it with only one name thats "WAVE".....

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                    • 14 Aug 2012

                    Alui, 14 Aug 2012I have a question, how come Apple has 6.9% of the sales in ... moreNothing to do with iPad / tablets.

                    The first tablets Operating systems - what are present only in smart phones and some very high end feature phones.
                    The second table is all types of phones: smartphones, feature phones...dumb phones (lol).

                    It's not clear if tablets are included in these figures - I suggest probably not.

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                      • 14 Aug 2012

                      AnonD-58527, 14 Aug 2012Windows Phone 8 is what we really want anyway. Be a differ... moreOK - let me get this right:

                      Win Phone QoQ:
                      Units sold: up 137% (or 2,363K)
                      Market share up 1.1% (or 68.75% increase)

                      Android QoQ:
                      Units sold: up 110% (or 51,753K)
                      Market share up 20.7% (or 47.7% increase)

                      So your right, WinMo had the highest % increase in sales, However the INCREASE in Android sales was 47,666K units more then what WinMo actually sold in total, or 2,017.1%

                      I think that 'taste of WinMo power' you mention needs to get a whole lot sweeter before we start getting carried away, cause looks like more people are walking right past that candy store then walking in or even ...ummm...window shopping...

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                        wait n watch....if NOKIA ever come up with Android...samsung n apple have to shut their offices.....

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                          • 14 Aug 2012

                          If apple released three diffrnt phones in a year...they surely will kick all the fandroids and send them to the hell!!!!! lolz;D

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                            Anonymous, 14 Aug 2012Android rules only now! LoL!

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                              Anonymous, 14 Aug 2012You're the troll from the iphone5 comments section. And how... moreoh come-on! apple have a brain and they can do that! I think you have no brain to say this discussion is for only people like you! YOU NEED TO FACE TO REALITY that apple can do that and i have a trust from apple!

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                                • 14 Aug 2012

                                Android rules

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                                  AnonD-36622, 14 Aug 2012Ahahaha that projections are so funny xD never but really n... moredude can u even bring sense to the comment...android runs on almost all the handset manufacturer...which almost makes it to 15 to 20 handset manufacturer and its 1000's of models which uses android and sold in the market...so do you even think the calculation is correct...IOS runs on IPhone and its hardly on 5 to 10 models and if you calculate like can you see the profits then and the ratio, androind will not be 1/4th as well in comparison to IOS...well its just that Iphone has its own monoply and when Iphone is started with Android then no other handsets will be sold in the market.....

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                                    • 14 Aug 2012

                                    As for android though, even if it is gaining the lead, the one making the most profit is Apple, I mean the IPhone 4 or 4S is overpriced, there was once a discussion here that IPhone is being sold at double its production cost yet people are buying it because it is apple, It is premium and it gives you the WOW factor over everyone else... But then again, what can you do with an IPhone at I believe 25 to 29k here in our place with an Android at the 13 to 15k range? All I can say is when it comes to marketing, apple must be the best since they can sell their stuff at a premium price without the hassle every other company encounters...

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                                      This article only give us birdview result. In my opinion to really see how good the android or samsung is. We should compare the sale of let say galaxy s2 with iphone 4s and bb 9900. Then we can have a clear picture. Because comparing the iphone with other who have low range devices also will not give the exact picture.

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                                        Anonymous, 14 Aug 2012You're the troll from the iphone5 comments section. And how... moreoh come-on! apple have a brain and they can do that! I think you have no brain to say this discussion is for only people like you! YOU NEED TO FACE TO REALITY that apple can do that and i have a trust from apple!