- BlackBerry’s market share is dwindling quickly, according to IDC data.
- Bloomberg
While Google’s Android operating system continues to distance itself from the competition in the world-wide smartphone market, one-time market leader BlackBerry is reaching new lows.
Android’s market share jumped to 79.3% in the second quarter, from 69.1% a year earlier helped in large part to a rush of new phones from Chinese handset makers.
The only other operating system that gained was Microsoft’s Windows Phone, which still has a paltry 3.7% compared with 3.1% last year. But it overtook BlackBerry as the No. 3 smartphone operating system thanks in part to Nokia’s new lineup of Lumia phones. Read More »