Wednesday 7 January 2015

Kantar: iOS gaining at the expense of Android

Tags: Android , iOS , Google , Apple



Kantar Worldpanel, a popular research agency has recently put out a report on mobile OS popularity. It covers major Europe, US and Asia markets and crunches usage numbers from September, October and November 2014 and it happens to show a shrinking gap between Android and iOS.












According to the data in the US Google's OS had 48.4%, which is a 2.1% drop from the same period a year earlier, while Apple's iOS showed an increase of 4.3%, putting it at 47.4%, just a hair behind Android. The analysis goes on to real that Windows Phone retained its usual third place for the month in question with 3%, compared to 4.7% back in November 2013.




In Europe the picture is quite different with Android gathering 66.8% and iOS - 23.8%. Even though the difference is much wider the popularity growth of the Apple is still evident. All of the stats can be vied in the table below.





















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Germany





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





USA





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Android





74.7





70.1





-4.6





Android





50.4





48.4





-2.0





iOS





17.3





21.4





4.1





iOS





43.1





47.4





4.3





Windows





5.7





7.1





1.4





Windows





4.6





3.0





-1.6





Other





2.3





1.4





-0.9





Other





1.9





1.2





-0.4





GB





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





China





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Android





56.4





49.7





-6.7





Android





78.6





80.4





1.8





iOS





30.3





42.5





12.2





iOS





17.0





18.1





1.1





Windows





10.6





7.0





-3.6





Windows





2.7





0.6





-2.1





Other





2.7





0.8





-0.7





Other





1.7





0.9





-0.5





France





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Australia





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Android





65.5





68.3





2.8





Android





55.1





45.0





-10.1





iOS





18.6





20.8





2.2





iOS





35.0





44.9





9.9





Windows





12.9





9.8





-3.1





Windows





6.9





8.0





1.1





Other





3.0





1.1





-0.6





Other





3.0





2.1





-0.3





Italy





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Japan





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Android





67.9





68





0.1





Android





30





42.4





12.4





iOS





11.0





17.0





6.0





iOS





69.1





53.8





-15.3





Windows





16





12.7





-3.3





Windows





0.0





0.4





0.4





Other





5.1





2.3





-0.5





Other





0.9





3.4





2.8





Spain





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





EU5





3 m/e Nov 2013





3 m/e Nov 2014





% pt. Change





Android





87.8





85.9





-1.9





Android





69.9





66.8





-3.2





iOS





6.5





9.7





3.2





iOS





17.5





23.8





6.3





Windows





4.4





4.1





-0.3





Windows





9.8





8.3





-1.5





Other





1.3





0.3





-0.8





Other





2.8





1.2





-0.6






The change in trends are easily explained by the fact that the period coincides with the release of the Cupertino-based company's latest smartphone lineup - the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which have been selling like hot cakes ever since their release. We are yet to see if the Android flagships will be able to regain some of the lost ground in the first half of next year




Source









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