Android Going Gangbusters: Seeing Massive Market Uptake

November 10, 2010 by Paul Spoerry Leave a Comment

Analyst firm Gartner has released its Q3 2010 smartphone estimates, and things are getting downright ridiculous for Android, which has seen 628 percent growth over Q3 2009 and is now the No. 2 selling smartphone OS worldwide for Q3 2010. There were some 20 million units sold to end users (that’s you and me) in the third quarter, compared to 1.4 million in the third quarter of 2009.

I’ve been saying for months now that the it’s the 80’s all over again. While I still think Apple’s iPhone has the most polished and usable interface, unless they make dramatic changes in how they sell the iPhone the writing is on the wall. iPhone won’t go away, but without multi-carrier/multi-form-factor for iPhone there will be no stopping the Android juggernaut.

Source: Gartner

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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