IDC Reveals Global Market Share Predictions Until 2015

Dan Anghel on March 29, 2011 with 0 Comments

IDC recently published their forecast for the worldwide smartphone market and they foresee a 49% growth compared with the last year, which is four times more than the overall mobile market. IDC believes that Android will own 45% if the worldwide smartphone market share by 2015, though we believe that is a little bit conservative, considering that Android already claims 39% of that market according to IDC own research.

For the same time frame, BlackBerry and the iPhone’s iOS are likely to remain around 13% and 15%. Symbian is allegedly nearing extinction, and Windows Phone 7 is supposed to grow from 5.5% to 20.9% thanks to the Nokia deal.

This would put Windows Phone 7 ahead of the BlackBerry and the iPhone, which is a little difficult to accept, but if you consider that just like Android, WP7 is used by multiple manufacturers, who knows? So far Motorola is the only manufacturer that has not manifested an interest in making a WP7 phone, leaving HTC, Samsung, and LG to explore this option to Google’s Android. Of course having multiple operating systems on their devices, the manufacturers will have to split their resources and that could translate in time in lower quality services for one or both of the versions.

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Dan is the Android guy. He won’t miss any news regarding Android and he will will keep you posted all the time with only fresh and useful information. Also he likes comparing Android phones all the time, studying the market and checking out upcoming phones, as he will never be sure which is the best Android smartphone.