iOS and Android push towards a Two-OS world

android also continued to post market share increases in all regions but the US, as no other ecosystem is challenging the two giants – iOS and Android. It is clear that there will only be two smartphone ecosystems moving forward – iOS and Android. iOS accounted for 42% of smartphone sales, up 2.9 percentage points year-on-year. At the beginning of 2016, Nokia lumia accounted for 6% of smartphones sold across the EU5, making it the fourth largest brand at the time. Huawei continues to account for over a quarter of smartphone sales in the region, at 26.6% for the three months ending January 2017.


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Kantar: Android and iOS squeeze out Windows Phone

Kantar Worldpanel published its report on the smartphone market for the three months ending in January 2017, and the numbers are clear - android and iOS are the only players left on the field, while Windows Phone and BlackBerry OS are quickly disappearing. In top 5 EU markets Android had a 74.3% share to 22.7% for iOS. The only place where iOS grows and Android loses points is the US market. MWC 2017 was an example that the world is turning into a two-OS battle instead of having a diversity - BlackBerry introduced the Keyone with Android and already ditched BlackBerry OS and Nokia lumia, once flying the Windows Phone flag is now in camp Android. Google 's OS accounts for 56.4% of sales in Q4 2016 while iOS devices have a 42% share of the pie.

Kantar: Android and iOS squeeze out Windows Phone

How Android and iOS devices really get hacked
The vast majority of android devices don't receive updates from their carriers and manufacturers for many months or at all, despite Google fixing the issues; that makes the situation for Android users trickier. And the OS bugs that Wikileaks claimed gave it access had previously been fixed by Apple and Google, leaving only older Android devices still vulnerable to them. News headlines warned of hacking tools that let CIA agents break into anyone's iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. The easier way to "hack" mobileThere are easier ways to hack mobile devices, but even those have varying degrees of success. Much of the purported hacking arsenal was composed of bugs not in the mobile OSes but in mobile apps.


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