Technology Article

Surprisingly, Android has the top smartphone system in the world. Most of this achievement is owed to Samsung, which was the top phone manufacturer in 2012. Android grew its already significant chunk of the smartphone market to 68.8% last year. Apple’s iOS operating system stayed comfortably in second place with only 18.8%. Together, Apple and Android account for 87.6% of the smartphone market. Experts think that Android takes over the market because there are thousands of Android phones every size and shape imaginable. Apple has only released six versions of the iPhone. Apple sold 130 million smartphones in 2012. Samsung sold 384.6 million phones in 2012, only 53.5% were smartphones. Overall, Android dominates the market. Apple follows behind and Windows, Nokia, and BlackBerry struggle to keep up. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/tech/mobile/smartphone-sales-apple-android/index.html