Android smartphone shipment numbers are down for the first time in history and according to ABI Research's latest data, it's down to the iPhone effect. In what is traditionally the biggest time of the year for certified smartphone shipments -- i.e., the final three months of the year -- ABI's figures show that shipments of Android smartphones hit 206 million, down from 217 million in the previous quarter of 2014. At the same time that Android was slipping, the iPhone was climbing -- 90%. "Google's Android is being attacked by Apple's iOS at the high end and forked Android (AOSP) at the low end in the high growth emerging markets.



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