12.11.2013 18:35 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Android, Windows Phone Make Major Gains in Q3 2013

Market research firm IDC today released the latest version of its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, which provides data and insights into smartphone market share and shipments for all of the major mobile platforms. (IDC is a sister company of IDG, CIO.com's publisher.)The most recent numbers are for the third quarter of 2013, and they show impressive gains for Android and Windows Phone. Android for the first time broke the 80 percent global market share mark (81 percent) on 211.6 million devices shipped in Q3 2013, up from 74.9 percent share on 139.9 million devices shipped in Q3 2012, according to IDC. Cheaper, low-end smartphones and large smartphones, or "phablets," are helping to fuel Android's growth, according to IDC.Microsoft's Windows Phone platform also made notable market share gains in the quarter; Microsoft increased its global Windows Phone share by 80 percent, up to 3.6 percent of the total market in Q3 2013 from 2.0 percent of the market in Q3 2012, IDC says. Windows Ph

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