Android's UK Market Share Growing Rapidly May be Ahead of Ios

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famousringo said:

mrstickball said:

famousringo said:
This is actually tracking behind other markets, for whatever reason. For example, Android seems to have hit 50% and plateaued in the US market. Worldwide, it claims 35% share. It seems like Android got a late start in the UK, and is rushing to catch up.

Android hasn't plateaued anywhere. There isn't enough data to suggest that it still isn't gaining marketshare. Gartner has never suggested such in its quarterly reports.

I'll see your one analyst who hasn't said anything and raise you two analysts (Nielsen and IDC) who see a leveling off:

http://www.wpcentral.com/nielsen-has-android-us-marketshare-falling-wp7-hovering

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/21/needham-androids-market-share-peaked-in-march/

Disclaimer on the Nielsen: It's looking at installed base, not share of new sales. Comscore still sees the installed base of Android regress towards the ~50% of new sales it has. That makes Nielsen a little incongruous, but it does suggest a slowdown in Android adoption.

From here, Android in the US might creep up or it might slide down, but I'm pretty confident that the explosive growth seen due to carriers and manufacturers adopting the platform is in the past for that market.

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One quarter does not make a trend. Any analyst should know that. Its interesting, but I don't think that one quarter means that Android will forever be locked at that market share.