Strategy Analytics: Android's global smartphone market share has peaked

With the latest data from Strategy Analytics showing a small decline in Android's global smartphone market share, the researcher says that Google's open source OS has peaked. The data shows that Android powered handsets accounted for 84% of all smartphones shipped globally in the third quarter. That was down 1 percentage point sequentially from the 85% global smartphone share that belonged to Android in the second quarter.



According to Strategy Analytics executive director Neil Mawston, barring a collapse in the number of Apple iPhone models that are sold worldwide, the highest market share ...