Android may still be the most widely used operating system in the world. However, the Android smartphone market in recent years has continued to decline and will be overtaken by the iPhone.
This is based on Statista data which states that the Android smartphone market has declined in the last five years. If in 2017, its market share reached 77.32% in January 2022, and then it fell to 69.74%.
On the other hand, Apple’s iPhone’s iOS market share continues to increase. From 19.4% in 2017 to 25.4% in January 2022. The largest market share of iOS occurred in December 2021 which reached 29.24%, quoted from Statista, Monday (25/4/2022).
In addition to Android and iOS, another operating system available is KaiOS, which was developed by Nokia based on the Linux platform, Windows Phone (Windows), and Tizen (Samsung). But the three of them did not develop rapidly.
One of the reasons for the increase in iOS users is Apple’s massive growth in developing countries thanks to the cheap iPhone or iPhone SE.
For example, in Asia Android has a market share of 81% increasing to 90% in South America.
So far, sales of the “cheaper” version of the latest iPhone, according to expert Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, have been less than good.
But there is no denying that the economy of a given region plays a major role in determining which OS is preferred in a given market.
Android’s share in Africa is 84% ​​with 14% owning an iOS (iPhone) supported phone. While not dominant in Europe, on the continent Android is still found in 69.32% of smartphones compared to the 30% share garnered by iOS.
Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS were launched in 2007. Both regularly launch updates to patch vulnerabilities that occur on smartphones or offer new features to improve the ease of communication among users.
Smartphone sales increased rapidly due to the impact of the touch screen smartphone revolution in 2010. Its sales increased dramatically from 139 million units in 2008 to 1.54 billion in 2021.
Apple, Samsung, and Xiaomi were quite adaptive to the touch screen revolution that made this company successful. As for Blackberry and Nokia, including smartphone vendors who lost because they were not responsive to the company.
Nokia’s focus on hardware specifications rather than software is one of the reasons the company’s net sales fell by 30 billion euros in three years.
