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Android shares to go up 24.6 percent by 2014, iPhone to drop
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010, 15:50 IST
Bangalore: Google Android is expected to raise its smartphone market share by 24.6 percent while iPhone might drop to 11 percent by 2014, revealed the latest IDC prediction. With this switch, Android will overtake BlackBerry which will have a marginal drop, to claim the second place, reports electronista.com.
Nokia's Symbian share is predicted to fall from 40.1 percent now to 32.9 percent, which is an 18.0 percent negative shift. Researchers opined that Windows Phone 7 is will power up the Windows Mobile market and it would jump three points up to 9.8 percent, although this would leave its fifth-place position virtually unchanged.
A smartphone boom is forecasted over the next few years with a 55.5 percent jump this year and 24.5 percent increase in 2011. IDC firmly believes that there will be fierce competition in the smartphone industry. "Since customers are upgrading phones much more often and are more likely to switch, no one firm has an absolute lock," IDC said.
Morgan Stanley has warned of a much faster BlackBerry decline that could play into the hands of both Apple and Google. Likewise, the effects of the increasingly likely Verizon iPhone aren't yet known. Partial studies have shown a large number of willing iPhone buyers at Verizon and that some Android buyers, though not all, may be opting in solely because they can't afford or are unwilling to switch to AT&T.
