During the quarter, Google's (GOOG) Android captured an astounding 25.5% of worldwide market share for smartphone operating systems, up from 3.5% a year ago. Apple's iOS market share, by contrast, dropped to 16.7% in the third quarter, down from 17.1% last year. In all previous quarters, the iOS has posted year-over-year growth, according to Gartner.
Apple (AAPL) was not alone. All other mobile operating systems, from market leader Symbian to Microsoft Windows (MSFT) lost ground as Android sucked up market share to leap to the No. 2 spot over Research in Motion.
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If this is true, then this estimate of 28% of Android tablet share is understated:
Bangalore: Taking a large bite out of Apple iPad sales, Google's Android operating system is predicted to have a market share of 15.2 percent in 2011 and is expected to grow to 28.4 percent in 2015, reveals the industry tracker IMS Research.
IMS has way understated the Android share of the tablet space. The two devices go together, they share applications and development and are likely to take the same shares in each market.
The point is what? These tablets are taking market from lap tops and Microsoft is no where on the map. Web apps are dominating, not native apps. Google looks to be in a great position to topple Microsoft right now, and Linux, by connection, becomes a major desktop OS..
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