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Android better market share but iPhone apps preferred

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 29, 2012

This leads, he feels, to the top third party iOS apps being of better quality and abundance than Android apps despite the extreme competition of one platform over another to be the best. We recently gave details of a market share survey that revealed the figures above, and it was evident that both platforms are still increasing their share of the market despite competition from Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, RIM’s BlackBerry OS and Symbian. In fact those three platforms only achieved less than 14% of the market when added together.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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