From the Wall Street Journal:
"Google's Android software continues to steamroll the competition in
smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple and
BlackBerry.
New data Wednesday from research firm IDC found that Apple's share of
the global market slid to 13.2 percent in the second quarter from 16.6
percent in the year-earlier period. Handsets running Android, meanwhile,
jumped to 79.3 percent from 69.1 percent.
The signs are particularly ominous for one-time market leader
BlackBerry, despite some high-profile product announcements recently.
Devices running its software accounted for just 2.9 percent of global
smartphone shipments in the three months ended in June, compared with
4.9 percent for the same period in 2012.
Android is given away free to handset makers by Google, whose
strategy is to make money on advertising associated with mobile devices.
It has long powered smartphones offered by industry giant Samsung, but
has lately also benefited by Chinese companies such as Lenovo, Huawei
and ZTE. that are grabbing a bigger chunk of the smartphone market.
"You are seeing tremendous growth in the developing world," said
Steve Mollenkopf, president and operating chief of mobile chip giant
Qualcomm Inc. Companies selling there are "picking up Android and
driving that.""
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