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Gartner: Android and iOS dominate smartphone market with 98 percent marketshare
July 27, 2025
Android andiOS-powered devices have long dominated the smartphone market, and it’s still clear that the two mobile operating systems show no sign of stopping anytime soon. New data has been released byGartner, suggesting that Android holds 84.7 percent marketshare as of the third quarter of 2015, which is a 1.4-percent increase year over year. The research firm says Android’s growth is thanks in part to strong global smartphone sales fromSamsungandHuawei. These manufacturers make up 23.7 and 7.7 percent of all smartphones sold in Q3 2015, respectively.
Apple’s iOS achieved sizable growth over the past year as well. 13.1 percent of all smartphones sold in Q3 2015 were running iOS, which is a .6-percent increase year over year. Together, iOS and Android make up 97.8 percent of smartphone marketshare. Despite these numbers,Gartnersays there’s still hope forMicrosoft’sWindows 10 for Mobile. Windows dropped from 3 to 1.7 percent marketshare year over year. It should be noted that Microsoft’s new mobile OS debuts in the U.S. this Friday on theLumia 950.
Roberta Cozza, research director atGartner, says:
In terms of overall sales, nearly 478 million smartphone units were shipped during the third quarter of 2015, which is an increase of 3.7 percent from last year.
To get all of the numbers for this past quarter, feel free to visit the source link below.
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