ABI: Windows Phone To End 2013 With 45M Handsets In Play, BlackBerry 10 Close To 20M — Out Of 1.4BN Global Smartphone Total

By on February 7, 2013 in Android, iPhone

The Android + iPhone duopoly in the smartphone space will ease up slightly this year, according to a marketshare forecast by ABI Research. The analyst predicts Google’s platform will take a 57 per cent share of the global smartphone pie, while Apple’s iOS will cut itself about a fifth (21 per cent) — giving the two rival platforms a 78 per cent chunk of the market. (In Q4 last year the two had a 92 per cent share , according to Strategy Analytics’ figures.) While 78 per cent is still a huge majority, the relative newcomers to the market of Microsoft, fuelled by its rebooted Windows Phone 8 platform, and BlackBerry with BlackBerry 10, will end the year powering

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