Smart phone sales exceeded other phone sales already 2013, but for the phones that are in use, it took three years to catch the trend, and today the TOTAL Installed Smart phone Base is 2.8 Billion.
Android and iOS have also took the market fully, as following short table will show
Rank | OS Platform | Units | Market share | Was Q2 2016 |
1 | Android | 2,211 M | 80 % | 79 % |
2 | iOS | 523 M | 19 % | 19 % |
Others | 36 M | 1 % | 1 % | |
Source: Excellent blog of Tomi Ahonen that is full of facts.. And quite much bragging.. but who would lift the cat’s tail, if not the cat itself. 🙂