A few weeks ago, we told you about the predictions that the IDC consultancy had made to forecast the health of the main mobile platforms in 2015. The most surprising data of that study was in the fact that Windows Phone could knock down iOS in terms of presence in installed terminals. And it seems that the speculations would not go wrong. We say this because now another consultancy, Gartner in this case, would have pointed in the same direction, although not with the same market shares. However, it does underline the same podium: Android, Windows Phone and iOS.
According to estimates by Gartner, the platform of Microsoft, which by then should be fully seated as the principal in smart phones from Nokia, occupy a 19.5 percent market share by 2015. Examining the evolution of Symbian, we see how precisely among users of the classic Nokia system is part of the transfer of the cake that Windows Phone would score.
For its part, Apple's operating system would take 17.2 percent of the platform park. A fact that the company responsible for the study does not indicate and that would be very interesting to assess these figures would point to the devices where the company believes that iOS could be found in four years. And not only because of the inclusion of the iPad in these evaluations, but because of the possibility that those from Cupertino finally decide to open, as has already been raised, a line of mid-range iPhones to diversify the type of public that is interested in its terminals.
Be that as it may, who would be intractable in the first position of these assessments (both in the IDC report and in this Gartner report that we are dealing with now), would be Android. Google's system would reach 48.8 percent share in 2015, according to the latest forecasts (compared to 45.4 percent that IDC predicted). As for the figures that Android would end this year with, the margin of difference between the two assessments is one percent, indicating that the platform could be found in almost four out of every ten smartphones before 2012 begins.
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