The difference between a company run by a visionary and executive can be seen clearly Apple Inc. Lenovo mobiles have managed to enter into the elite class, but may have to wait for some time to become a popular phone. The report also highlights that Samsung has lost market share by 5.3% over the year to other vendors. We also need to consider the fact that there more than 700 mobile manufacturing companies that use Android OS but 62.5% of business has been done by Samsung, LG, Lenovo and Huawei combined. ( NASDAQ:GOOG) of selling its original version nexus mobile is one of the reason for its increasing market share.
There has been only a slight increase in the market share of Android OS from the previous quarter.
SMARTPHONES OS MARKET SHARE DRIVER
Nokia is acting more of a driver for Window Phone software than its own technicality. The fact that the collective innovation from many companies using Android are able to beat vertically integrated Apple. Being open source and able to be customizable by the mobile manufacturers, Android still remains the market leader. Accounting to the fact that companies are always surprising the customers with their new features in hardware and software, the appetite is growing. Smartphone market has once again proved that it is still in the growth phase and has a considerable amount of time for saturation. This resulted in 9.3% Q-O-Q growth rate as 216.3 million smartphones were shipped during Q1 of this year. According to latest report from IDC, total 236.4 million Smartphones were shipped during the second quarter of this year. The number of smartphones have increased by 51.3% over the year by the end of June 2013.