Apple’s operating system for its popular iPhone made the largest worldwide gains, on a percentage basis, according to a report from Gartner on Monday.
The Cupertino, California, computer maker’s Mac OS X grabbed growth of 230.6 percent in the worldwide smartphone market tracked by Gartner, rising to 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 1 percent for the same period a year ago.
“Gartner analysts expect iPhone sales to grow significantly in the second half of 2008,” the report said.
|
Company |
2Q08
Sales |
2Q08 Market Share (%) |
2Q07
Sales |
2Q07 Market Share (%) |
2Q08- 2Q07 Growth (%) |
|
Symbian |
18,405,057 |
57.1 |
18,273,255 |
65.6 |
0.7 |
|
Research In Motion |
5,594,159 |
17.4 |
2,471,200 |
8.9 |
126.4 |
|
Microsoft Windows Mobile |
3,873,622 |
12.0 |
3,212,222 |
11.5 |
20.6 |
|
Linux |
2,359,245 |
7.3 |
2,816,490 |
10.1 |
-16.2 |
|
Mac OS X |
892,503 |
2.8 |
270,000 |
1.0 |
230.6 |
|
Palm OS |
743,910 |
2.3 |
461,918 |
1.7 |
61.0 |
|
Others |
352,679 |
1.1 |
349,501 |
1.3 |
0.9 |
|
Total |
32,221,175 |
100.0 |
27,854,586 |
100.0 |
15.7 |
Source: Gartner (August 2008)
The second biggest gainer, on a percentage basis, went to Research In Motion. RIM’s operating system occupies BlackBerry devices and gained 126.4 percent to take 17.4 percent of the smartphone market in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 8.9 percent a year ago.
That came at the expense of Symbian, whose operating system powers Nokia phones, which declined to 57.1 percent of the worldwide smartphone market from 65.6 a year ago.
Microsoft saw its Windows Mobile OS gain a modest 20.6 percent to 12 percent from 11.5 percent a year ago.
Palm, despite lackluster products, still edged ahead to pick up 2.3 percent of the OS market, a 61 percent increase, compared with 1.7 percent a year ago.
Linux, which will power the open-source Android mobile operating system backed by Google, declined to 7.3 percent of the market for smartphones compared with 10.1 percent last year.