iPhone and Android shares rise while BlackBerry, Symbian fall

It's definitely a good time to be an iPhone or an Android smartphone. Gartner is reporting that while the iPhone's total smartphone market share fell slightly from 17.1 percent to 16.7 percent (while still selling more total units than RIM) and Android's jumped from 3.5 percent to 25.5 percent in the past year, BlackBerry has seen a decline from 20.7 percent to 14.8 percent and Symbian from 44.6 percent to 36.6 percent. Windows Mobile's share has been sliced by more than half, from 7.9 percent down to just 2.8 percent of the market. In terms of total worldwide mobile sales, Apple's share is up to 3.2 percent from 2.3 percent this time last year, with 13,484,400 units sold in Q3 2010. Analysts project Apple to sell 36 million iPhones worldwide for the year, followed by 100 million by the end of 2011.

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Source: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/11/10/gartner.q3.201…

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Mystic

OMG I find it unbelievable that so many people fell for this story, including 'bloggers' and 'journalists'. This is ONLY for phones sold in Q3!!! NOT total that's out there.

This is complete BS and it's meant to make people think that Android is somehow ultra popular when it's not.

I for one see 10x more people using iPhones than Android devices.

Shame on you especially TUAW. You guys have no integrity at all.

November 10 2010 at 10:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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FightTheFuture

you shouldn't measure amount of phones sold total - looking at quarterly sales is a good metric of predicting trends of what people will buy.

though i don't understand why everyone believes android is 'taking over' just because one platform is outperforming another doesn't mean it's the clear winner now and forever. look at symbian. noone is saying that they love their symbian phones and that they'll always be high sellers. but there they are on top.

i have a feeling when more windows phone 7 handsets are available you'll see the android growth cut by at least a third. there's plenty of room for multiple operating systems. but people forget that there are more than just android and iOS.

November 11 2010 at 12:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

redcard

A third defecting to Win7?

You can not be serious.

November 11 2010 at 5:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eduardo

This is completely wrong. You say iPhone shares rise and Blackberry and Symbian fall, but then the chart shows that BB, Symbian and iPhone all falled while Selling more units. The only winner here is Android, it is stupid to say that the iPhone rises if they're in the same position as BB and Symbian, or that it's a good time to be an iPhone owner. Seriously I can't seem to get how could anyone allow this post to be published, it's really dumb.

November 10 2010 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

WonderPug

iPhone market share (iOS) dropped from 17.1% to 16.7%.

You need to at least fix the headline...and not just explain in the text that the headline is wrong.

November 10 2010 at 4:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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macserv

Actually, the iOS number is almost as impressive Android's. While Google's OS share rose by an absolutely astounding 22.0%, they could only shave 0.4% from Apple's platform.

November 11 2010 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply