Android has more than half the sales of all devices ... - TeK.sapo

In five years the platform developed within the Open Handset Alliance, coordinated by Google, approached, equaled and surpassed the competition, showing that the Internet places no captives.

data compiled by Canalys for the first three months of the year show that 59.50% of Android equipped devices sold. The average rate of new operating system activations per day is 1.5 million.

Apple, with iOS, was the winner of the second quarter, a position maintained at the expense of good performance iPad, but it still is a significant distance from the leading platform: support secured 19.3% of equipment sold. Microsoft now appears only in the third position with 18.1% market share indicates market research company.

Sales of portable equipment in the first quarter of the year representing an increase of 37.4% compared to the same period last year.

Tablets assume prominence in this cake, with the number of units sold to grow 106.1%, for a total of 41.9 million units. Here the domain still belongs to Apple, the iPad, the pressure of Android is growing and the company is losing market share for the third consecutive quarter.

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