Android Gaining Market Share
7/24/2010 by mountainviewcellphones.com
Android continues to gain market share in the smartphone space. According to the Google Blog, Android is having about 160,000 activations per day. Apple Iphone sales from their quarterly report were 8.4 million.
8.4 million / 91 days in quarter = 92,308 Iphones per day.
From these two standpoints, it’s clear that the Android is outpacing IPhone 1.7:1. This is very consistent with the information in the comscore reports about market share.
This pace is only going to increase towards the favor of Android with the launch of Droid X, 4G Epic, and other Android versions on all carriers globally (Samsung and LG versions in particular).
Comscore states we have about 49.1 million smartphone users in the USA, 24.4% Apple or 11.98 million. Android had 13% or 6.3 million. Android was gaining market share at a global rate of 67,692 per day. If this was all in the USA, this gap would be closed in about 84 days, or about 3 months. However because we are comparing global figures versus US market shares, we will make a range estimate for the Android overtaking market share and the largest smartphone platform.
The minimum is 3 months (as above). We will assume that 50% of this market share gain is attributable to the USA given the large success of Android here. That would put the date of parity market share in December of 2010.
So starting January 2011, we should have parity of market share for IPhone and Android, each garnering about 25% of the market (assuming Blackberry continues to hold its share).
It’s fun how this timing is planned with the IPhone launch on other carriers rumored in 2011.
