14 DAY TRIAL // They say Windows Phone is dead, and with Microsoft confirming that the platform is no longer one of its focuses this year, there’s growing speculation that the company is slowly giving up on its mobile OS.
But figures provided by Net Applicatiosn, the same statistics company that provides us with data regarding desktop OS adoption, show that Windows Phone is maintaining its existing market share, which only varies by a small margin from one month to another.
In March, Windows Phone was the third most popular mobile platform in the world with 2.54 percent, and although it might not seem much, it’s almost the same as in December 2015. Windows Phone only dropped 0.03 percent from February to March, and even has more users than in September 2015, when it was powering 2.48 percent of the mobile devices out there.
Android still king
On the other hand, Android continues to dominate the mobile industry with a continuously growing market share. Google’s mobile OS has reached a share of 60.99 percent, up from 59.65 percent the month before. According to Net Applications, Android has been on a constant growth since October 2015, when it was powering 52.61 percent of the phones in the world.
It then started improving gradually, reaching 57.10 percent the following month and adding important gains every single month.
As far as iOS is concerned, Apple’s operating system is currently the runner-up with 31.76 percent, but as compared to leader Android, iOS is going down.
Stats show that iOS declined from 32.28 percent the month before to 31.76 percent in March. iOS’ drop started in November 2015, when it collapsed from 40.28 percent to 34.88 percent the following month.
As far as Windows Phone is concerned, next month’s figures should be a little better, given the fact that Microsoft started the Windows 10 Mobile rollout, so hopefully, the platform can improve significantly over the coming months.