Popularity Question On IOS And Android
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    • Popularity question on iOS and Android
    So everything I see online says Android is more popular than iPhone. But the problem is that those people are comparing Android, an OS, to the iPhone, hardware. I did a little searching but I did not find anything that actually compared like terms. Does anyone know which mobile OS as a whole is more popular? I am especially interested to see the popularity results when they include all smartphones, tablets, and everything in between (iPod touch).

    Android is a fragmented OS each modified to run on the dozens of hardware handsets. The iPhone is hardware with it’s own OS.

    I am just trying to find some chart that shows popularity of each OS as a whole.

    For example, Comscore’s charts show that currently, about 47% of US smartphone owners use Android, 30% use iOS:

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    Comparing OSes worldwide, at the beginning of 2012 there had been 316 million iOS devices sold since 2007. At the same time, Google announced 300 million Android activations since 2008. (That does NOT include the millions of Nooks and other non-Google-app licensed devices in the world.)

    At the current rate of Android activations (850K a day) and iOS activations (guessed by analysts at 350K-500K a day), Android’s official count should pass iOS pretty soon.

    Totals starting a half decade ago don’t mean much right now, though. After all, Palm total sales over years were higher than iPhone sales for a long time. To developers, I’d say what counts is how many are currently being used.

    To a user, what should count is if a device fits your needs and desires.

    First, you wanted generalized OS popularity, now you want details? Then you’ll have to be much clearer as to what you want to know. Ask the right questions; get the right answers.

    Overall:
    Android devices are outselling iOS devices by about 2:1.
    Going deeper:
    Android phones are used by more people than iOS phones are.
    IOS tablets currently outsell Android tablets, but that’s expected to flip by 2015.
    IOS PMPs (aka iPod touch) are more popular than Android PMPs.
    IOS devices dominate web browsing stats.

    For iOS, up to beginning 2012:
    180 million iPhones
    80 million iPod touches
    55 million iPads
    Of side interest:
    There are 55 OEMs of official Android devices.
    2/3 of Android phones sold have 4″+ screens.
    3/4 of Android tablets sold have 7″ screens.
    iPad owners do ~twice the amount of web browsing as iPhone owners.

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