Andre Yoskowitz
5 Aug 2010 15:51
According to the research firm iSuppli, more smartphones will be using the Android operating system by 2012 than are using the Apple iOS.
Google recently announced 200,000 Android phones being activated each day.
iSuppli says Android will be used in 75 million smartphones in 2012, up 1500 percent from 2009, when 5 million Android devices were sold.
In the same period, Apple iOS devices will jump to 62 million from 25 million.
At that time, Android would control 19.4 percent of the global smartphone market while Apple would have just under 16 percent.
"The flexibility Android offers for hardware designs and its appealing business model in terms of revenue sharing have attracted vigorous support from all nodes in the value chain, including makers of high-end smart phone models," says iSuppli senior analyst Tina Teng.