It’s Android’s world: Platform accounts for 79% of smartphone shipments in Q2

[Wireless News]

Market share may not mean everything, but it certainly means a lot when it becomes as big as Android’s. Gartner this week confirmed a recent report from IDC showing that Android-based devices accounted for 79% of all smartphones shipped in the second quarter of 2013, a record share for a platform that keeps growing with every passing day. In all, Gartner found that vendors worldwide shipped 178 million Android smartphones on the quarter, 40% of which were Samsung devices. Apple’s market share, meanwhile, shrank year-over-year from 19% in Q2 2012 to 14% in Q2 2013 even though the company’s total iPhone shipments rose from 29 million to 32 million over the same period. Windows Phone showed some decent momentum on

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