Google unveiled Android in 2007 and released the first ever Android device, HTC Dream, on 22nd October 2008, according to Wikipedia.com.

1. The Rise Of Android - Year By Year Growth.

2. Google unveiled Android in 2007 and released the first ever Android device, HTC Dream, on 22nd October 2008, according to Wikipedia.com. Today, Android is one of the widely used operating systems for smartphones and tables. Let us see the year-by-year rise of Android.
Year 2008
Symbian was leading the mobile market until 2008. This year it had more than 52.4% markets share globally. The second company that had lead in the same period was Research In Motion with about 17 percent market share. Third was Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS with 11.8 percent market share, according to Gartner’s findings
We discovered more data for the year 2008. According to the findings of Canalys, this same year Android only had 0.5 market share. The beginning of Android OS had been rather slower.
Of course 2008 was not a very fantastic year for Android but experts had said that Android would outsell the iPhone. Google actually claimed this in the first quarter of 2008. The claim has now been realized.

3. Year 2009 It was a positive year for Google’s Android OS. The market share increased to 4.7 by the end of this year. In the same year, the market share of Apple’s iOS also increased. It was recorded as 15.1 % which was 5.5% higher as compared to last year. RIM also experienced growth of 4.3 percent; however, it was the year when Symbian’s market began to shrink. Symbian’s market share decreased to 5.2 percent in comparison of 2008. Google’s influence was clearly visible in market. More and more companies had begun manufacturing Android based phones. Apart from HTC, companies like Samsung, Acer, Huawei, Motorola, Dell, LG, Sony Ericsson, and Philips have also begun manufacturing Android powered phones. It was clear by the end of the year that in future the major smartphone players would be Google and Apple. In the year 2009, we have a full-fledged app store for Android; however, it had already been initiated in October 2008. By the end of 2009, there were more than 20,000 applications in the Android Market which is now

4. known as Google Play Store. It was expected that 2010 would be a much brighter year for Google’s Android OS and so happened. Year 2010 By the end of the Q3 2010, Symbian’s market continued to shrink. It only had 36.6 percent of market share left in comparison of 52.4 percent in 2008. In the same third quarter of 2010, there was dramatic increase in Android market share. The Android OS reached to 25.5 percent market share, second to Symbian. However, Apple’s share also increased to 16.7 percent which was 15.1 percent in 2009. It was visibly a slow growth and affected by the heavy influence of Android among users. RIM also shrunk to 14.8 percent, according to the number shared by Gartner in 2010. Microsoft Windows Mobile did only have 2.8 percent of share in the global smartphone market in the same year.

5. As far as Android apps was concerned, there were 170,000 published apps on Google’s Android Market in 2010 according to AndroidZoom, an alternative Android apps listing Android Market website. These were a bit more of half of the total number of iPhone apps which were recorded as 306,554 by the end of the 2010. The numbers of iPhone apps were shared by Apple itself. Android had already taken lead over most of the mobile operating systems excepting Symbian by the end of 2010. But there was much worse thing to happen with Symbian in next coming year. Year 2011 As I mentioned in the last paragraph that Symbian had to see worse time in next coming years and so it happened. In 2011 the high-demand of Android smartphone leapfrogged Symbian in the ranking. Symbian now only had 22 percent of market share according to the Gartner’s report for Q2 2011. It was a time when Symbian powered Nokia’s devices were rapidly losing users’ attention. According to an article of networkworld.com that referred research statistics of Canalys, Android was powering more than 48 percent of all the smartphone shipped in the second quarter of

6. 2011. A fivefold increase was recorded in the shipment or usages of Android powered phones which were manufactured by hundreds of companies around the world. Canalys also analyzed Android as one of the top operating systems in 35 out of the 56 countries. The same market share of Android, which was recorded as 48 percent in Q2 2011, reached to 50.9 percent by the end of Q4 2011. On other hand, Apple’s iOS market share also increased and reached to 23.8 percent by the end of fourth quarter of 2011. However, Apple has already legged behind in terms of selling more iPhone smartphones in comparison of Android powered smartphones but it was still leading in terms of number of apps on its iTunes store. Android had more than a half million of total published apps by the end of Q3 2011; however, Apple had already cleared the half-million mark for iOS apps in the first quarter of 2011. It was cleared by the end of 2011 that in future, major smartphone market shares would be held by Android and iPhone. Android continued to grow in 2012 and so did Android application development. It was clear in Q2, 2012 that Google Play would soon surpass Apple in app market too.

7. In June 2012, there were more than 600,000 apps on Google Play which were totaled 20 billion downloads as shared by Engadget.com. In the same period, Apple’s App Store had 650,000 apps and 30 billion downloads 2012
Android had captured 59% market share by the end of Q1, 2012 according to IDC worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, May 24, 2012. It was a 145.0% of growth as compared to Q1, 2011. In the same period, iOS too captured 23.0% of market share which was 4.4% more in comparison of last year’s 1st quarter’s share. Symbian, which was once on the pinnacle of success, was seeing its worse days with 6.8% of share in global market place. BlackBerry’s share continued to drop and reached at the all time lowest, 6.4% in Q12012 as compared to 13.6 in Q12011. The same happened with Windows Phone OS. It only had 2.2% market share as compared to 2.6 in last year. “Android continues to fire on all cylinders,” IDC senior research analyst Ramon Llamas said in the report. According to this report, Google Android had surged to a whopping 68% share of worldwide smartphone market by the end of the second quarter. In the same period,

8. Symbian OS had only 4.4% of the global market share which was 52.4% percent until 2008. In the same quarter, Apple had four times less, 17% of global market share. Apple had begun to lose the battle. It seemed that Apple’s charm was fading out. Android reached to 75% share of global smartphone market in Q3 2012 while Apple only had 14.9 left, and Symbian dropped to 2.3 percent, according to the statistics provided by IDC. Google said in the last week of October 2012 that it too had 700,000 Android apps. Apple had shared the same number a week before Google’s announcement. Now Google had filled another major gap between Android and iPhone. 2013
VentureBeat.com shared it in the last of January 2013 that Android captured almost 70% global smartphone market share in 2012, Apple just under 20%. In 2013, legacy operating systems such as Symbian and BlackBerry had been wiped-out. According to Gartner’s findings Android had 74.4% market share by the end of Q1 2013. Android had already captured 75% market share by the end of last quarter of 2012, according to IDC; however

9. Gartner confirmed Android’s hold of 74.4 % at the end of first quarter 2013. In the same period iOS had only 18.2, BlackBerry had only 3.0, Windows Phone had only 2.9 percent and Symbian had only 0.6 percent according to Gartner’s finding for the Q12013. In Q2 2012, BGR.com reported “It’s Android world: Platform account for 79% of smartphone shipment in Q2.” The research firm also found that smartphone device makers around the world shipped 178 million Android smartphones in second quarter. In the same quarter Apple’s market share shrank to 14%. However, in this period, company shipped 32 million iPhone devices. Windows Phone’s share improved a bit and reached 3.3%. By the end of quarter fourth of 2013, both Android and iOS were accounting for 95.7 percent of total smartphone shipments. According to IDC’s report, Android had 78.1% market share while iOS improved a bit and reached 17.6%. Windows Phone’s share also improved and reached 3.0% BlackBerry had a minor share of 0.6%, but Symbian had no mention in the reports of research firms. 2014

10. As reported by IDC, Android had captured 84.4% of global smartphone market till the third quarter 2014. During the same period iOS were reported to have 11.7% market share. -X-X-
Information is composed on reports of several data and statistics analysis firms.