IDC reports Android tops smartphone sales with over 1.3 billion phones shipped, Apple at no 2 with 192 million handsets shipped in 2014.
Google's Android OS dominated the global smartphone market in 2014, with an 81.5% market share and Apple's iOS share dropped to 14.8 %, according to a report.
Market tracker IDC states that in spite of record sales of the new released iPhones, Apple's market share for the year drop slightly to 14.8% from 19.7 percent in the fourth quarter. Android phone makers sold over one billion handsets globally, while iOS selling 192 million in 2014. Windows Phone share declined to 2.7% in 2014 from 3.3% an year ago and BlackBerry accounted for just 0.4% of the smartphone market share, a steep decline from 1.9 % an year ago.
Android and iOS combined hold over 96% of the market share, with all other platforms including Windows Phone, Blackberry among others combined hold just 4%. The company's latest report states that Windows Phone has lost momentum while BlackBerry has nearly disappeared.
Melissa Chau, an IDC analyst stated, "Instead of a battle for the third ecosystem after Android and iOS, 2014 instead yielded skirmishes, with Windows Phone edging out BlackBerry, Firefox, Sailfish and the rest, but without any of these platforms making the kind of gains needed to challenge the top two."
"This isn't to say that vendors aren't making moves, especially for the growth segments — the low-end markets. With Microsoft bringing ever-cheaper Lumia into play and Tizen finally getting launched to India early this year, there is still a hunger to chip away at Android's dominance."
Source: IDC
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