In the latest figures released from the marketing firm Strategy Analytic, it is found that the Android market obtained a record 88 percent of the quota global market share in the third quarter of 2016.
But most importantly, the report claims that global smartphone distributions grew 6 percent annually from 354,2 million units in the third quarter of 2015 to 375,4 million in the same time frame this year.
Interesting news, not only for Android, but also for the global smartphone market, which indicates that these innovations are getting many periodically update your phones for the new ones that are being launched by the biggest brands of the moment.
Although it is Apple that has not benefited from this data, since iOS has gone from 13,6 percent to 12,1 percent in the third quarter of the year, if compared to the same time frame last year. This growth of Android also shows the near disappearance of both Windows Phones and BlackBerry.
When it comes to smartphone distributions year after year, Android has seen a growth of 10,3 percentwhile Apple's iOS has seen its share for Q3 fall by 5,2%.
Anyway, there are some Attention words for Google and his Android from Woody Oh, director of Strategy Analytics:
Its low-cost services and software that they stay very attractive for hardware manufacturers, operators and consumers around the world. In any case, there are several important challenges that Google must face. The Android platform is being overcrowded with hundreds of manufacturers, a few making profits and Google's new Pixel range is attacking its own hardware partners that made Android so popular in the first place.