Google’s Android Seizes Smartphone Market
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Google Inc.’s GOOG +0.33% Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple Inc. AAPL -0.82%and BlackBerry Ltd. BB.T 0.00%
Google’s Android software continues to steamroll the competition in smartphones, posing bigger problems for companies like Apple and BlackBerry. George Stahl reports on MoneyBeat.
New data Wednesday from research firm IDC found that Apple’s share of the global market slid to 13.2% in the second quarter from 16.6% in the year-earlier period. Handsets running Android, meanwhile, jumped to 79.3% from 69.1%.
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% of global smartphone shipments in the three months ended in June, compared with 4.9% 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 Electronics Co., 005930.SE -0.41% but has lately also benefited by Chinese companies such as Lenovo Group Ltd., 0992.HK +1.37% Huawei Technologies Inc. and ZTE Corp. that are grabbing a bigger chunk of the smartphone market.
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