Analyst Kantar Worldpanel has released its report on the smartphones market, which concerns the quarter that ended last April.
According to the data της Kantar, το Android is also dominating for such periods in markets such as Europe, China and the United States, while the Windows Phone Number shows 'mixed' performance across the various sub-markets.
More specifically, on Europe's top five markets (Germany, France, Italy, Britain and Spain), Android is up 1,7% controlling 72,4% of the total market. It also showed an increase functional of Microsoft, after gaining 1,6% and gaining market share of 8,4%. THE Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), to operating system iOS slightly improved, holding the 17,5% of the European market.
At American marketThe Google with Android climbing 7,3 units by achieving 59,1% share. Instead, Apple lost 6,8 units, holding the 34,6% of the US market. A slight decrease was also experienced by Microsoft with Windows Phone, which lost 0,9 units with a share of 4,7%. Unexpected was the slight improvement for BlackBerry which allowed it to acquire a market share of 1%.
On the contrary, in the "vast" Chinese market the BlackBerry disappears altogether, while at the same time Android is gaining its biggest boost and at the same time the largest market share. More specifically, Google's operating system won 7,9 units, over the same period last year, holding a market share of 79,8%. In China, Windows Phone drops marginally to 1,4%.
At Japan the situation remains radically differentiated since Apple is the first to have 55,4% market share, up by 5,6 units compared to last year. The second place is followed by Google Android with a market share of 43,6%, reduced by 0,8 units.
Kantar expects further pressure on Apple's operating system over the next period of time due to appearanceto him Windows Phone 8.1 of Microsoft. The pressure is expected to last until September, when it is expected to make the upcoming iPhone 6.
Source: naftemporiki.gr
