Here is the current rankings of the mobile OS world ranked by USAGE, not new sales. This reflects what has been sold in the past and
is still being used today.
Tablets and phones are grouped together if they use the same OS.
Windows does not use the same OS, so they have two separate listings.
It is clear that the Appleonians still rule on a historical basis, apparently, by a factor of 2x no less.
iOS 58.26%
Android 25.28%
Java ME 8.86%
BlackBerry 3.23%
Symbian 2.23%
MS Phone 1.15%
Kindle 0.81%
Bada 0.05%
MS Mobile 0.05%
Samsung 0.05%Wearables
BREW 0.01%
LG 0.01%
HUAWEI 0.01%
ZTE 0.00
The figures above reflect all phones that are in current use as a total cumulative produced over time since smart phones started, they do not reflect on what people are doing
right now as they re-up their old phones with new ones or buy their very first smart phone (new users).
That answer as reflected below is quite different, showing that new users and re-uppers are picking Android by a very very large majority and apparently quite a few of the historical iPhone users are trying out Android this time around as well.
iOS is only getting 14.8% of all current cell phone sales. The
total pie plate size of the new sales cell phone pie chart is doubling and tripling yearly and iOS simply isn't there in those sorts of numbers any more. This gets worse as the years roll out.
Long term predicted sales are just that, and look sorta like this .....
At a whopping 80.2% of current sales, Android will soon overcome Apple in the historical usage metrics up top as well, since so many more Android phones are being cranked up now than Apple phones.
Windows has a very hard row to hoe since they started what 6-7 years late into the game and their adaptation percentages look to top out eventually at only 6.4% (based on this sites forecast model of course).
I like this prediction table, it says that them mysterious OTHERS, them folks we don't even know anything about at all right now are going to be the biggest growing section at 31% growth year on year going out into the future.
Truth is, they likely are right in that the future will be different than what we expect it would be.
Wearables are squaring off to take over a chunk of the cell phone functionality, with Samsung currently selling the first of such items right now as we speak.
What is new and hot is the key, and if new and hot is Android and Open Source (as it tends to be) then MS will never pick up much more than 3% to 7% of the total cell phone market.
At these very low levels, app makers and developers will not spend a lot of time on MS apps, since MS apps are not readily translatable across the board in the neat easy way that Apple iOS and Android apps seem to be in the non-MS app world.
Lastly, Intel has just very lately totally abandoned "x86 only" COMPLETELY and
all designs on all their new mobile processors are designed to run Android now.
This recent change in processors to run on has got to play out against Windows phones eventually.
Now, if MS does a Windroid (android fork) will all their then new cell phone products be counted just like every other android fork is counted -- as android?