BlackBerry is still dominant, but fell over the past 12 months, at 20 market share.
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Google’s Android OS apparently has the most market share with 40, followed by Apple’s iOS with 35. Instead they mostly defected to Android and iOS, and Nokia's handset business turned into a shell of its former self before Microsoft agreed to buy it for $7.2 billion in 2013 it wrote off the acquisition's entire value less than two years later. The report also indicated that 62 of Canadians own a smartphone. IDC based its original prediction on the idea that consumers and businesses who were buying phones based on Nokia's Symbian platform, which had about 21% market share in 2011, would switch over to Windows Phone, Nokia's next platform of choice. Technology changes quickly, and it's hard to predict buying habits. The lesson? The predictions of most research firms aren't worth much.
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" The weak results can largely be attributed to the lack of OEM partner support," IDC writes. Related GigaOM Pro Research Report (sub req’d): The App Developer’s Guide to Choosing a Mobile Platform. Last week, the firm released its latest predictions for smartphone market share, and now it thinks Microsoft's Windows Phone will be about the same in 2019 as it is today, stuck under 3%. So unspurprisingly, IDC has changed its tune completely. Symbian kept its measly 1.4 share in the US. Smartphone Operating System Market Share. Meanwhile, BlackBerry and Microsofts mobile OS shares declined and they are now well behind the top two. Well, 2016 is right around the corner, and Windows Phone is in just as dire shape as it was in 2011. For more insights into the UK smartphone market, take a look at our recently published UK Mobile Gaming infographic.
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