Hate Android for being bigger than iOS? Now it's bigger than Windows, too

With the worldwide marketshare of Android smartphones at 75% and of Android tablets at 50%, perhaps iOS users are facing a PalmOS future. We don't know. (Heh.) But new statistics from Mary Meeker of KPCB shows an even bigger milestone for Android, the biggest milestone of all:

Android phone adoption is ramping up six times faster than iPhone, and Android surpassed Windows as the #1 OS for Internet-enabled devices in Q1 2012.

 No surprise, given the numbers being shipped. By the end of this year, she expects:

• Android = 160 million devices shipping per quarter
• Windows = 100 million 
• iOS = 80 million 

 In our family, the numbers stack up like this:

• Androids = 7 devices (3 smartphones, 3 tablets, 1 tv box)
• Windows =6 devices (2 desktop and 4 notebook computers)
• iOS = 5 devices (2 iTouch, 1 iPad, 1 MacBook, 1 Mac Mini)

Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/05/mary-meeker-internet-trends/ 

Comments

[Robin Capper]

H'mmm. I have 2 active Windows devices (desktop & netbook) and one iOS phone.

By this time next year I expect it will be 3 Windows devices: Desktop, Phone and tablet/laptop combo.

At this stage it is either Samsung ATIV for tablet/phone or maybe Surface Pro/Ativ.

Apple looses out as would not dual boot/virtualise for Windows apps I use and can't stand iTunes. Android as don't see any attraction in mixed platform hardware.

[Rande Robinson]

At my house the score is:

9 - android devices (4 phones, 3 e-readers & a Tablet)
5 - in use windows PCs (1-desktop, 2 laptops 2 netbooks)
4 - apple ipods (who know what os they run)

guess we are bit strange with no "real" iOS products. Oh well... technology marches on