IDC: 92,3% of all smartphones sold in the first quarter, running on Android and iOS

Research agency IDC published its findings on the results of the various smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year. Most of the market continue to monitor the two companies - Google and Apple, mobile operating systems are totally occupied 92.3% of the total sales of the first three months of 2013. In the numerical dimension is 199.5 million units, up 59.1% from a year ago, when it was delivered to 125.4 million units. The share of all other mobile OS accounts for only 7.7% of sales, or 16.7 million smartphones, though only iOS sold in the first quarter in the amount of 37.4 million copies. Leadership by volume keeps Android, with the increase in sales of the OS is also very large - 79.5% for the year. This is the second rate in the market is not allowed to occupy 59.1% of the market as it was a year ago, and has exactly three-quarters, 75%. Leader in sales of smartphones based on this OS is a South Korean company Samsung, which accounts for 41.1%. Apple has managed to achieve a record quarterly deliveries for the same period, but overall sales growth is slowing, and its market share fell from 23% in 2012 to 17.3% this year. The reason for this was the saturation of the market, which is not allowed to increase sales by more than 6.6%. The leader of growth of supply was the company Microsoft, which could increase the supply of Windows Phone smartphones at 133% for the year. However, its market share had grown at the same time with only 2% to 3.2%, and shipments were estimated 7 million vehicles. share of all other manufacturers of mobile operating system has continued to decline. Antireyting topped of Symbian, whose sales fell by 88.5%, from 10.4 million units in the first quarter of 2012 to 1.2 million units in the same period of 2013. Slightly better looking indicators mobile version of Linux - a drop in sales of 41.7% from 3.6 million to 2.1 million. Conceded the third place in the ranking of Microsoft, a company BlackBerry has lost 35.1% of its sales were down from 9.7 million units to 6.3 million. Until very low values ​​decreased sales of smartphones with the "other" mobile operating systems - such was sold only 100,000 units. It should be noted that all of the mobile OS is not included in the top three market share retained less than three percent: 2,9% BlackBerry, 1,0% Linux and 0,6% Symbian.