Android rules global smartphone share

There is something very wrong with this article...it says android has 48% and that Apple (presumably they mean iOS) is in second place...then it says that Samsung is in third...but samsung makes Android devices, so how can they be third in a list of operating systems that shows their operating system as #1?

I would have to agree that this is a bit of a 'non-article', it doesn't make sense in quite a few ways unfortunately.

Yep, the original article says nothing about Samsung. I guess it's a typo, maybe a mistake when copying and pasteing. Original article is here:

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=155057

OK, here they do mention Samsung, so maybe it was an editing mistake when trying to summarize the info, after all:

http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/android-takes-almost-50-share-worldwide-smart-phone-market

Now, reading the full-lenght news, it makes more sense.

Correct Story:

Of the devices sold LAST QUARTER, here are the top operating systems:
Android Top OS
iOS Second
Symbian Third
Blackberry fourth
Windows dead last by a huge margin

As for brands sold, the article doesn't make it terribly clear...they don't give numbers for some of them, making the validity of anything this company says highly questionable.

@dali....Thx. for the links

@Mrguss, you're welcome.

@Killerbug, the article has been corrected here. :)

Originally posted by KillerBug:

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There is something very wrong with this article...it says android has 48% and that Apple (presumably they mean iOS) is in second place...then it says that Samsung is in third...but samsung makes Android devices, so how can they be third in a list of operating systems that shows their operating system as #1?

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@pmshah, if you'd keep on reading the rest of the comments before starting your rant against other user, you'd had seen that the article had been edited and hence corrected AFTER we said it was redacted wrong. The original just made no sense at all.

Originally posted by dali:

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@pmshah, if you'd keep on reading the rest of the comments before starting your rant against other user, you'd had seen that the article had been edited and hence corrected AFTER we said it was redacted wrong. The original just made no sense at all.

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@pmshah, you are right, it says nothing in the article itself saying it had been edited. I just thought that it could've been figured out from our posts, but maybe not. So, sorry, don't take it personal.

Originally posted by dali:

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@pmshah, you are right, it says nothing in the article itself saying it had been edited. I just thought that it could've been figured out from our posts, but maybe not. So, sorry, don't take it personal.

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Agreed. That doesn't happen a lot in AD, though. But, still, humans will eventually make mistakes. In this particular case, as forementioned, I think it was an error when copying, pasteing, and putting paragraphs together, because the original article was claiming that Android was 1st, iOS was 2nd, and Samsung, with its Galaxy S, 3rd. There was, obviously, a missing part between the 2nd and the 3rd, which belongs to another chart listing phones, instead of operating systems.