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Android is Now the Most-Used Mobile Operating System

posted by n1 on Tuesday August 05 2014, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the most-smartphones-are-dumb dept.

gewg_ writes:

Android has slipped past Apple's iOS to become the top mobile operating system for the first time, in terms of online usage. Figures from Net Marketshare show that devices powered by Android were detected browsing the web more than iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices running iOS throughout July 2014.

Android usage grew from 43.75 per cent in June to 44.62 per cent in July, while iOS usage dipped from 45.61 per cent 44.19 per cent. Coming in a third place after iOS and Android is Java ME, which provided 4.19 per cent of mobile and tablet web access in July, followed by Nokia's Symbian mobile operating system, which brought in a tiny 2.57 per cent. Microsoft Windows Phone 8 operating system managed just 1.87 per cent, with BlackBerry next up at 1.21 per cent and Amazon's Kindle Fire OS taking a 0.64 per cent slice.

Android runs on 85 per cent of handsets sold compared with iOS just 11.9 per cent.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by cykros on Wednesday August 06 2014, @01:15AM

    by cykros (989) on Wednesday August 06 2014, @01:15AM (#77846)

    You couldn't install Google Play on the Nook tablets? Funny... While I'd never considered the idea of either a Kindle or Nook tablet (the allure of ebook readers is that the battery life is measured in WEEKS, not hours...which isn't true of tablets), I have a rooted Nook SimpleTouch (the original model, which wasn't actually advertised to be Android at all, but was under the hood). And yea, you guessed it... Google Play :-).

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  • (Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Wednesday August 06 2014, @11:13AM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Wednesday August 06 2014, @11:13AM (#77975)

    Yes and no - the original Nook with its Android 2 fork probably could run Google Play, but the target audience was people who wanted a safe rubber room (a "curated" app store) with carefully selected apps. These are not the people who wanted to install a Google Play APK. And if you were writing for the Nook, you had to get into their curated app store to reach your audience. These are not tech-savvy people, or they wouldn't have bought a Nook.

    The happiest day of my life was when the Nook capitulated and switched to Google Play. My app triggered a platform bug in their Android fork and every ... time ... I ... submitted ... it ... I had to go through the same rejection process, open a support ticket, explain it was their bug, and ... then they accepted it silently without any explanation. That got old.

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