December 17, 2009: Apple lastly triumphs over longtime rival Microsoft … on cell working techniques market share.

Figures launched by analysis agency Comscore present that iPhone OS (as iOS is known as on the time) surpasses Home windows Cellular in the US. On the time, roughly 36 million People personal smartphones. Of those, 1 / 4 run Apple’s cell working system.

Cell phones mark a turning level in tech

The undisputed chief on the time was Analysis in Movement’s BlackBerry working system, discovered on 40% of U.S. handsets. Apple got here in second. Microsoft took third, adopted by Palm OS, then Symbian and (in final place) Google’s Android working system.

In some methods, these adoption figures represented a turning level in tech. On the time, Microsoft led Apple when it comes to market valuation, though clearly issues had been altering quick. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer laughed on the iPhone, which he slated as a non-serious competitor to his firm’s Home windows Cellular.

However by the next Could, Apple overtook Microsoft in market capitalization, surpassing the tech big that dominated Cupertino in the course of the earlier decade. By the tip of 2010, Microsoft dropped its Home windows Cellular working system in favor of Home windows Telephone OS.

The lengthy listing of rival cell working techniques from 2009 additionally sheds gentle on how a lot issues modified within the years since. BlackBerry, then the trade chief, has grow to be an afterthought. Palm OS and Symbian have been discontinued. Except for iOS, the one different cell working system to flourish is Android.

Cellular working techniques evolve

Figures from November 2022 present that present U.S. smartphone working system adoption breaks down like this: iOS runs on 55.7% of units and Android on 43.9%. Android does higher internationally, claiming 71.9% of the market versus Apple’s 27.5%, because of the widespread adoption of less-expensive smartphones around the globe. In all places, opponents to iOS and Android command negligible slivers that signify lower than 1% of the market.

Issues certain have modified up to now decade or so.

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