2014 full year smartphone total shipments 1.3004 billion, iOS market share drop

"TechWeb report," according to Foreign Science and technology blog AppleInsider Report, market research company IDC this week released the fourth quarter of 2014 and the full year of smartphone market share statistics. According to the data, 2014 smartphone total shipments 1.3004 billion, compared to 1.0187 billion in 2013 27.7%.

Among them, Android intelligent machine shipments of 1.0593 billion, compared to the 2013 802.2 million growth of 32%, market share of 81.5%, 2013 78.7%. iOS handsets shipped 192.7 million units, up 25.6% from 2013 's 153.4 million, with a market share of 14.8% and 15.1% in 2013.

Although the WP system platform has also increased, but 34.9 million shipments relative to other platforms is still too little, the market share of only 2.7%, compared with the era of Windows eminence is really people can not afford to be interested. In addition, the BlackBerry is not ideal, only 0.4% of the market share, compared to the 2013 1.9% has declined significantly, this year with the BlackBerry does not pay attention to the personal mobile phone market strategy.

"The strong demand from end users, the update of the product mix and the listing of Low-cost equipment have boosted shipments, especially for Android," said Ramon Llamas, research manager for IDC's mobile team. ”

It could be said that the smartphone market is growing at an unimaginable rate, but by contrast, only the Android platform has seized the opportunity, which is inextricably linked to the platform's open positioning, and iOS, which has increased shipments, has a slightly lower market share compared with 2013.