Business analytics firm comScore revealed at the Canadian Wireless Trade Show on September 13 that 54% of Canadians are smartphone owners. comScore had a list of other statistics about the mobile marketplace in Canada that shed some light on the sector and confirmed some analyst theories.
Many outsiders had predicted the Canada’s own Research In Motion (RIM) was losing a lot of market share to competitors but the maker of the BlackBerry had been tight lipped about the matter. comScore cleared up the matter by presenting data that showed RIM’s market share drop from 38% to 27% since 2011. Interestingly it was Google’s Android powered phones that took the biggest chunk of the BlackBerry’s customers. This may not be big win for Google because the only reason Android took over so much market share was because the free OS is available on so many different phones. There was no single phone running the Google mobile OS that showed in the top slots.
comScore’s statistics once again proved Apple’s dominance as the numbers showed Rogers, Telus, and Bell sold 744,000 16GB iPhone 4s making the highest selling smartphone for the three wireless providers. The iPhone 4S came in second place and Apple’s iPhone 3GS was still a big seller when compared to other Android devices. The Torch 9800 and Bold 9700 also beat out a single manufacturer phone using Android.
The data seemed to only get worse for Android ad comScore showed that the market place was extremely fragmented for Android and different phones had many different versions of the OS. For example, 72% of phones using the Google OS had the 2.2 and 2.3 version. A disturbing 7% had Android 4.0 which was a major upgrade and took place last year.
Source: TechVibes
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