{"id":133182,"date":"2015-07-24T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=133182"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:18:56","slug":"android-soars-apple-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/133182-android-soars-apple-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Android soars, Apple down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom\u2019s latest statistics show that the number of Android users on its network increased significantly over the last three months, while Apple and BlackBerry lost users.<\/p>\n

Vodacom\u2019s stats for June 2015 show that it had 6.1 million Android users on its network.<\/p>\n

BlackBerry was second with 2.2 million. However, the platform continues to lose subscribers at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n

The biggest surprise was Apple\u2019s iPhones and iPads which declined from 978,000 users to 960,000 over three months.<\/p>\n

Windows continued its steady growth in South Africa, with 547,000 users in the country.<\/p>\n

The table below provides an overview of Vodacom subscribers by mobile platform.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Operating system<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nDevice by type (in thousands)<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
—<\/td>\nSep-13<\/strong><\/td>\nMar-14<\/strong><\/td>\nJun-14<\/strong><\/td>\nSep-14<\/strong><\/td>\nDec-14<\/strong><\/td>\nMar-15<\/strong><\/td>\nJun-15<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS<\/strong><\/td>\n650 000<\/td>\n785 000<\/td>\n775 000<\/td>\n805 000<\/td>\n914 000<\/td>\n978 000<\/td>\n960 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
BlackBerry<\/strong><\/td>\n3 100 000<\/td>\n3 030 000<\/td>\n2 895 000<\/td>\n2 760 000<\/td>\n2 650 000<\/td>\n2 434 000<\/td>\n2 228 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android<\/strong><\/td>\n1\u00a0450 000<\/td>\n2 190 000<\/td>\n2 560 000<\/td>\n3 362 000<\/td>\n4 314 000<\/td>\n5 413 000<\/td>\n6 134 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Windows<\/strong><\/td>\n270 000<\/td>\n375 000<\/td>\n410 000<\/td>\n449 000<\/td>\n476 000<\/td>\n536 000<\/td>\n547 000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on mobile plaforms<\/h3>\n

Windows 10 can get Android, iOS, Mac apps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SA smartphone maker to launch new Android device<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of Android users in South Africa continues to soar, while the number of Apple users has declined for the first time in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":97745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[397,605,97,35,41,807],"class_list":["post-133182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-vodacom","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133232,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133182\/revisions\/133232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}