Android's vast global dominance of the smartphone market has shrunk slightly over the past four years while iOS has continued to increase its overall share, according to a new analysis from the website. stockapps.


Google's Android OS is the most widely used operating system in the world, with smartphone makers of all kinds relying on the mobile operating system to power their devices. As such, it's no surprise that Android controls about two-thirds of the mobile market, but new data from StockApps suggests that Google shouldn't take its supremacy for granted.

Android controlled 77.32% of the global operating system market in July 2018. As of January 2022, four years later, this percentage has decreased to 69.74%. Meanwhile, during the same four-year period, global iOS adoption grew from 19.4% to 25.49%, an increase of 6%. According to a StockApp analysis, the remaining 1.58% lost by Android went to developers of smaller operating systems.

The marginal shift in share in no way indicates that Android's dominance is under threat, but despite reports of disappointing iPhone SE sales, it's a positive sign for Apple that its broader strategy to diversify its iPhone and iPad lineup Its own pay off in a very tight competitive space.

StockApps analysis also includes an interesting geographic breakdown of the operating system's dominance. For example, in Africa, 84% of all smartphones are running Android, while iOS accounts for about 14% of the continent's devices, and this is because Apple devices are very expensive on the continent of mostly poor third world residents. The same is true for Asia and South America, where Android accounts for 81% and 90%, respectively. By contrast, iOS's share is 18% in Asia and 10% in South America.

As expected, Apple has the lion's share in North America and Australia, where it overtakes Google's share. iOS accounts for 54% of the market in both regions, while Android accounts for nearly 45%, indicating that loyalty to Apple's hardware, platform, and apps keeps users within its ecosystem.

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