On May 5th, I tried to fill in the blanks on Global smart phone OS shares | Asymco. I estimated that the shares for the mobile OS’s were as follows (based on Canalys partial data):
- Symbian (Nokia): 42%
- Blackberry OS (RIM): 19%
- iPhone OS (Apple): 16%
- WinMo (Microsoft): 10%
- Android (Google): 10%
- WebOS (Palm): 2%
Now Gartner has published their sell-through estimates:
- Symbian (Nokia):: 44%
- Blackberry OS (RIM): 19%
- iPhone OS (Apple): 15%
- Android (Google): 10%
- WinMo (Microsoft): 7%
- Linux: 4%
- Other OSs: 1%
My estimates were within 1 or 2 percent of actuals except for Windows Mobile where I over-estimated by 300 basis points.
The analysis of Android vs. iPhone market shares (globally and within the US) which depended on this estimation does not change materially.
The complete data from Gartner follows:
