{"id":74618,"date":"2016-11-04T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=74618"},"modified":"2016-11-05T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T16:46:27","slug":"android-global-smartphone-shipments-but-apple-making-all-the-money","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/android-global-smartphone-shipments-but-apple-making-all-the-money","title":{"rendered":"Android Accounts for 88% of Global Smartphone Shipments But Apple is Making All the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the third quarter of this year, global smartphone shipments reached 375 million units, up 6% year-over-year. And of those 375 million, a record 88% were Android-powered devices, according to data from Strategy Analytics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This was the smartphone industry\u2019s fastest growth rate for a year,” commented Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics.<\/p>\n

“BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Phone have all but disappeared due to strategic shifts,” noted Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics.<\/p>\n

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So that leaves Apple. Well, Apple lost ground to Android, dipping down to 12%.<\/p>\n

However, Apple remains the only one making any money. According to a new estimate from BMO Capital Markets, Apple is generating all of the industry’s profits<\/a>\u2014and we mean all<\/em>. This report shows Apple at a similar 13% third-quarter shipment share, so the numbers line up.<\/p>\n

“Few Android device vendors make profits,” admits Woody Oh, Director at Strategy Analytics. “The Android platform is getting overcrowded with hundreds of manufacturers . . . and Google\u2019s new Pixel range is attacking its own hardware partners that made Android popular in the first place.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/10\/10\/apples-ios-10-being-adopted-at-record-rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the third quarter of this year, global smartphone shipments reached 375 million units, up 6% year-over-year. And of those 375 million, a record 88% were Android-powered devices, according to data from Strategy Analytics. “This was the smartphone industry\u2019s fastest growth rate for a year,” commented Linda Sui, Director at Strategy Analytics. “BlackBerry and Microsoft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":74666,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-74618","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74618"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=74618"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=74618"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=74618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}