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SMARTPHONES OS MARKET SHARE WINDOWS
Lower cost smartphones are an important theme behind Gartner's overall forecast, with mid- and lower-cost smartphones driving Windows Phone sales into second place in 2015, and somewhat higher average costs pushing iPhone into third place that year. The smartphone will "have been finally truly democratized" by 2015, Cozza said. RIM's share in 2011 will be 13.4%, dropping to 11% in 2015, Gartner said.Ĭozza predicts that two-thirds of the 1.1 billion smartphones sold in 2015 would cost on average no more than $300. RIM's smartphone share will decline into 2015, mainly due to competition in the consumer and business markets.
SMARTPHONES OS MARKET SHARE ANDROID
Android has been falling slightly in market share in. It does project that overall iPhone sales volume will increase with greater sales in the U.S. Android dominates in global market share, responsible for 71 percent of all smartphone usage in Q1 2021. The price tag will limit iPhone sales in emerging regions in coming years, Gartner explained. But in 2015, iPhone will dip to third place with 17.2% of the 1.1 billion smartphones sold that year.Īpple's share with the iPhone smartphone platform will decline slightly after 2011 because Apple is likely to keep its iPhone prices relatively high, Gartner said.
Windows Phone devices will hold only 5% of the market in all of 2011, but will jump to nearly 20% in 2015, Gartner predicts.Īpple's iPhone will garner 19.4% of the smartphone market in 2011, making it second behind Android, and will hold that second-place spot into 2014, Gartner said. "All the strengths Nokia still has will play a role" in Windows Phone moving to second place in 2015, Cozza said via e-mail. Nokia will also retain its reputation for solid smartphone hardware in the Windows Phone alliance, sheadded.
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