This year vendors will ship 1.1 billion devices based on Android, while Windows stages a small comeback and the number of Apple machines, percentage-wise, increases the most, according to estimates from market research company Gartner.
Shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones of all shapes and sizes will increase by 7.6 percent year-on-year to 2.47 billion units, as users across the globe continue to buy more tablets and phones, according to Gartner.
Google’s Android is and will continue to be the most popular OS by a wide margin, much thanks to the growing popularity of low-cost smartphones. That segment of the market will this year help Android devices surpass shipments of 1 billion units for the first time. By 2017, more than 75 percent of Android’ shipments will come from emerging markets, Gartner said.
So far, Android hasn’t had tremendous success beyond its core product categories, but consumers’ familiarity with the OS helps vendors like Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard, which are using the OS on new PCs, according to Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner. This week’s International CES trade show illustrates how the popularity of Google’s OS is starting to spill over from smartphones and tablets to all-in-one PCs, TVs and cars.
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