December 17, 2009: Apple lastly triumphs over longtime rival Microsoft … on cellular working programs market share. New knowledge reveals that iPhone OS surpasses Home windows Cellular in america for the primary time.
With roughly 36 million Individuals proudly owning smartphones, 1 / 4 of them run Apple’s cellular working system, in line with figures launched by analysis agency Comscore.
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 large that dominated Cupertino in the course of the earlier decade. And by the tip of 2010, Microsoft dropped its Home windows Cellular working system in favor of Home windows Cellphone OS.
The lengthy record of rival cellular working programs from 2009 additionally sheds mild on how a lot issues modified within the years since. BlackBerry, then the trade chief, has develop into an afterthought. Palm OS and Symbian have been discontinued. Other than iOS, the one different cellular working system to flourish is Android.
Cellular working programs evolve
Picture: ComScore
Figures from November 2023 present that present U.S. smartphone working system adoption breaks down like this: iOS runs on 58% of gadgets and Android on 41%. Android does higher internationally, claiming 70% of the market versus Apple’s 29%, as a result of widespread adoption of less-expensive smartphones world wide. In every single place, rivals to iOS and Android stay negligible slivers that characterize lower than 1% of the market.
Issues positive have modified prior to now decade or so.
Which cellular working system and handset had been you utilizing again in December 2009? Tell us within the feedback beneath.
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