The Android operating system in the second quarter of 2015 for the third consecutive quarter market share lost to Apple. However, the Android operating system remains dominant with a market share of well over 80 percent.
Figures from research firm Gartner for the second quarter of 2015 show that the Android operating system again has lost market share to Apple's iOS operating system. This is mainly due to the very good sales results in achieving that Apple knows its Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Android
In the second quarter of this year, the Android operating system recorded a global market share of 82.2 percent, indicating that 82.2 percent of all sales in the second quarter, smartphones running on the Android operating system. A year ago this was still 83.8 percent.
iOS
What Android has lost market share Apple has completely swallowed. In addition, the iOS operating system also knows to steal even more market share from other smartphone operating systems. Apple saw its global market share of its iOS operating system in the second quarter of this year to grow to 14.6 percent, versus 12.2 percent a year earlier.
Windows Phone
The third "largest" smartphone operating system is still Windows Phone from Microsoft. The latest figures, however painfully obvious with what Microsoft has faced problems. The market share of Windows Phone decreased from 2.8 percent last year to 2.5 percent in the second quarter of this year. Microsoft spends more self-less Windows Phone smartphones and other smart phone manufacturers hardly use the operating system. The number of sold smartphones with Windows Phone rose in absolute numbers somewhat, but the growth rate was lower than the growth of the overall market.
BlackBerry
The situation with BlackBerry is further deteriorated in the second quarter of this year. BlackBerry saw both its market share and its sales in absolute numbers significantly lower. BlackBerry now quoted with its BlackBerry operating system only a global market share of 0.3 percent. Last year this was still 0.7 percent. Total went worldwide in the second quarter of this year about 1.5 million BlackBerry smartphones over the counter, compared to over 2 million last year.
Other Operating Systems
In addition to Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, there are many other smarpthone operating systems, including for example, the Firefox OS, Ubuntu and Sailfish. All of these operating systems are added together collectively achieve worldwide market share is currently 0.4 percent. Also these parties know nibble away at Apple's market share, because last year to allocate these operating systems still 0.5 percent market share.
