AppleInsider Staff
According to research firm Canalys, Google's Android platform continues to dominate the worldwide mobile marketplace as the OS powered 59.5 percent of the nearly 310 million smart mobile devices shipped in the first quarter, while Apple managed to grow its iOS and OS X presence to a 19.3 percent share.
In a report on Thursday, Canalys (via ZDNet) estimated that "smart mobile device" shipments, comprised of smartphones, tablets and laptops, grew to 308.7 million units by the end of quarter one, a 37.4 percent increase from the year ago period.
Out of the three device classes, tablets exhibited the strongest growth with a 106.1 percent year-on-year increase to 41.9 million shipped units. Apple led the way with a 46.4 percent share of the global market, though Android ate at the iPad's chunk of the pie for the third straight quarter.
Smartphone shipments hit 216.3 million units representing growth of 47.9 percent. Android accounted for 75.6 percent of units shipped, with Samsung showing growth of 64.3 percent to end the quarter with a 32 percent marketshare. Apple grew its share 6.7 percent year-over-year, the slowest growth rate since the original iPhone launched in 2007.
"Despite its slowing growth, Apple still shipped over 37 million iPhones," said Canalys Principal Analyst Pete Cunningham. ‘But HTC and Samsung have raised the bar with their latest handsets and Apple needs to respond with its next iPhone."
Due to Canalys' methodology, Microsoft came in behind Android and Apple with a 19.3 percent share of the "smart mobile device" market thanks to its huge influence in the notebook PC segment. The notebook market saw 50.5 million shipped units, a contraction of 13.1 percent from 2012.
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But, web traffic and apps downloaded are more on Apple Store. It does not matter how many are sold ( or shipped) if people are not downloading apps or browsing web, because, Google cant generate money if they do so.
Let's see: Samsung has 26.6 % (including all OS platforms ?) Apple has 19.3 % (iOS Only) Lenovo Sony Huawei have 11.3% and others have 42.6% (including all OS platforms) I like Apple's position the best. Apple makes more profit than all of the vendors combined and will continue to do so.
Wait, the entire world votes for free food but some people are still buying premium food and beverages (like Coke). The entire world drinks a lot of water for free. Hey, GREAT! Wine for the rest of us ;-)
The chart on the right says that MICROSOFT nearly equaled APPLE in worldwide "smart mobile device" market share, [B][I]based on Q1 shipments.[/I][/B] Nearly 56 million units, compared to Apple's 59 million. Microsoft sells the Surface, Nokia sells the Lumia and together, they [B][I]SHIPPED[/I][/B] 55 million units? REALLY?? *cough* ri-i-i-i-ight. Not to mention, there's that "shipped units = market share" nonsense again. I'm thinking pretty much NONE of this guy's "analysis" carries any credibility. Next!
So Apple (iOS & OSX) is outselling Windows mobile and laptop (apart from servers and desktops)..
Quite an achievement.