São Paulo – Android will remain leader of the smartphone market in the coming years and in 2017 to reach the milestone of 1 billion handsets for a total of 1.5 billion devices globally available.
projections released by research firm Canalys, also indicate that despite the growth, the market share of Android should drop slightly from 67.7% to 67.1% in 2017.
For comparison, in May Google announced that it now has 900 million devices, including smartphones and tablets running the Android system in the world.
The main competitor of Android, Apple’s iOS also lose its market share from the current 19.5% to 14.1% in four years.
According to the company, the drop occurs because of Apple’s smartphone market is growing from input devices and simpler, this segment that the company does not engage. “The dominance of Android is the scalability of the platform,” says the study.
Another highlight is the projection of Canalys mobile system from Microsoft. Windows Phone is expected to reach 12.7% of the smartphone market in 2017, approaching very Apple.
to grow more than 10 percentage points from the current 2.4% in just four years, Microsoft will need the support of major mobile device manufacturers like Nokia, Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE.
“Although Nokia already be the lead partner for Windows Phone, Microsoft will need the help of those Chinese partners to challenge the market dominance of Samsung,” said the study.
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