Strategy Analytics has released their numbers that measure global smartphone operating system shipments and marketshare for Q4 of 2012, and they say that iOS and Android together accounted for 92 percent of all shipments.
Both iOS and Android were able to significantly increase market share over Q3, while global smartphone shipments over the entire year reached a record 700.1 million units.
Apple grew 29% annually, selling 135.8 million iPhones for the year. iOS grabbed 22% of the market in Q4, down from 24% in the year-ago quarter. The iPhone’s share of the smartphone market for the entire year comes in at 19.4%, up slightly from the 19% it grabbed in 2011.
Android posted the largest gains, jumping to 70.1% of the global market in Q4, a big jump from the 51.3% it held a year ago.
The “Others” category, which includes BlackBerry, Symbian, Bada, and Windows, only took 7.9% of the market in Q4 2012. Androids gains were at the expense of these “Other” phones.
The Strategy Analytics’ report includes shipment estimates for Android numbers, vs. hard sales numbers for iPhone. Apple sold 135.8 million iPhones during 2012, and the report estimates that Android shipments were at 479 million units shipped (not sold) for the year.
