market share

May 26 2012

Android SDK Market Share for May 2012

The following table is the current market share of the various Android SDK’s in use. Developing apps for API 7+ will encompass 99% of Android devices. The largest numbers of devices are running the Gingerbread SDK (64.4%), but a significant number (26.4%) is running API’s 7-8. So, the minimum API for Android development should be 7.


SDK API Market Share
4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich 14-15 4.9%
3.x.x Honeycomb 11-13 3.3%
2.3.x Gingerbread 9-10 64.4%
2.2 Froyo 8 20.9%
2.0, 2.1 Eclair 7 5.5%
1.6 Donut 4 0.7%
1.5 Cupcake 3 0.3%

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Aug 8 2011

August 2011 Smart Phone Market Share

The following are the latest smart phone market share statistics from Nielsen. Android is well ahead of Apple, which isn’t unexpected since more companies have Android phones for sale than Apple. The WebOS market share is low due to a slow start, but I expect that they will have significant gains in the future due to the size and marketing potential of HP. Windows Phone 7 is widely believed to attain the #2 status (followed by iOS) by 2015 due to Microsoft’s partnership with Nokia and they have advantage of a vibrant developer community and great development tools (i.e. Visual Studio 2010).

Its interesting times ahead with smart phones. The competition from these major brands will only produce better products in the end for the consumer.

 

Android 39%
Apple iOS 28%
RIM Blackberry 20%
Windows Phone 7 9%
HP WebOS 2%
Symbian 2%

 

August 2011 Smart Phone Market Share

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