The output iPhone 5 Android slowed the growth in the U.S. and UK

Resource Kantar World Panel published a study of the mobile OS market by the end of the third quarter of 2012. The most interesting point is the fact that in the U.S. and the UK launch of the new smartphone from Apple has had such a large impact on the market, which has slowed the growth of the share of the OS Android. However, other markets in Europe the situation is quite the opposite. In Germany, France, Italy and Spain the share of iOS continued to decline, and Android - to grow. It should be noted that the third quarter of iPhone 5 was only sold a week. Output is in several markets in the fourth quarter may change the global trend. In the third quarter the share of iOS in the U.S. reached 35.7% compared to 21.5% in the same period a year earlier. This increase of 14.2% was carried out including by Android. The share of the OS in the 3 quarter of 2012 accounted for only 57.5%, while in 2011 its share was 66.4%. No less was a failure for the quarter and BlackBerry OS, whose share fell from 6.9% to 2.1%, bringing the OS lost third place Windows Phone, which accounts for 2.9% (2.7% a year earlier .) In Britain, iOS share increased by 9.9% to 28.0%, but this was without reducing the share of Android, which grew from 53.4% ​​to 58.2%. RIM managed to save 8.8% of the market and in third place in the list, but the fact that a year ago, she was 20.8%. In the category of endangered moved OS Symbian, which accounted for only 0.6%, while in 2011 it was 5.1%. But Windows Phone has doubled its rate, though it is still very modest - only 4.2% (2.0% in 2011). Major European countries (Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, France) demonstrated the highest growth rates Android - from 50.9% to 67.2% and a decrease in the share iOS: from 17.3% to 16.5%. Symbian, BlackBerry and Bada have shown a high rate of disappearance from the market to reduce its presence at 6%, 9.7% and 1.5% market share, and occupying respectively 5.9%, 3.4% and 1.7%. At the same time, Windows Phone is slowly but steadily continued to rise: from 3.1% to 4.9%.