Analyst firm IDC released
its report for the first quarter of 2013, which chronicles big rises and great
falls. There's nothing new at the top – Android and iOS account for 92.3% of
smartphone shipments - but the fight for third position is heating up.
Android is
still in the lead (in fact, it's widening its lead) and grabbed 75% of the
sales. Samsung is by far the biggest Android maker, with a share of 41.1%.
Other Android makers have single digit market shares, with some falling below
the 1% threshold.
Apple shipped
the greatest Q1 volume of iPhones ever, but even with that saw iOS market share
decline to 17.3% (from 23% in Q1 2012).
Android and iOS
together account for 199.5 million smartphones shipped in the first quarter of
2013, up 59.1% over Q1 of the previous year.
Windows Phone
was the fastest growing OS and jumped into third place with 3.2%. Nokia is the
main driver of WP growth, with nearly 80% of all Windows Phone handsets sold in
Q1 carrying the Nokia logo. Nokia has shipped 20.3 million Lumia phones in
total.
BlackBerry
slipped from third to fourth place (6.4% market share to 2.9%) but there is
some good news, its new BlackBerry OS 10 has sold 1 million smartphones during
its first quarter of availability (that's just the Z10, the Q10 and Q5 were
unveiled just a few days ago). Still, the majority of BlackBerry smartphones
shipped in the first quarter ran on the old BB OS 7.
Linux held on
to 1% market share (down from 2.1%) but there are plenty of new OSes incoming -
Tizen, Mozilla, SailFish and Ubuntu.
Symbian saw the
biggest decline in market share, down to just 0.6%. Small surprise since Nokia
and Japanese carriers (the last bastions of Symbian) have moved on. Still, IDC expect
the veteran OS to live on in 2014 with very small shipment volumes.
Operating System
|
1Q13 Shipment Volume
|
1Q13 Market Share
|
1Q12 Shipment Volume
|
1Q12 Market Share
|
Year over Year Change
|
Android
|
162.1
|
75.0%
|
90.3
|
59.1%
|
79.5%
|
iOS
|
37.4
|
17.3%
|
35.1
|
23.0%
|
6.6%
|
Windows Phone
|
7.0
|
3.2%
|
3.0
|
2.0%
|
133.3%
|
BlackBerry OS
|
6.3
|
2.9%
|
9.7
|
6.4%
|
-35.1%
|
Linux
|
2.1
|
1.0%
|
3.6
|
2.4%
|
-41.7%
|
Symbian
|
1.2
|
0.6%
|
10.4
|
6.8%
|
-88.5%
|
Others
|
0.1
|
0.0%
|
0.6
|
0.4%
|
-83.3%
|
Total
|
216.2
|
100.0%
|
152.7
|
100.0%
|
41.6%
|
Source: www.idc.com
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