{"id":364290,"date":"2020-08-20T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=364290"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:45:12","slug":"android-vs-ios-over-the-past-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/364290-android-vs-ios-over-the-past-10-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Android vs iOS over the past 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smartphone ecosystem has changed significantly over the past decade.<\/p>\n

Modern smartphone users have only two major options in terms of software for their handset – Android or iOS.<\/p>\n

Android is an open-source mobile operating system developed by Google and used by many smartphone manufacturers across the world.<\/p>\n

iOS is Apple’s proprietary mobile operating system which is exclusive to its iPhone devices and features heavy integration with other Apple devices such as MacBooks and the Apple Watch.<\/p>\n

This binary competition was not always the case, however, as over the past 10 years, there have been many other operating systems widely adopted by mobile devices.<\/p>\n

The most prominent of these systems included Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS, Samsung Tizen, and of course, Android and iOS.<\/p>\n

Over time, however, the other operating systems fell away, with most of the smartphone brands that used them choosing instead to adopt Android.<\/p>\n

They maintained a unique offering by customising the open-source operating system with their own software.<\/p>\n

These “skins” run on top of the core Android operating system and include unique functionality, such as built-in security or accessibility features.<\/p>\n

To understand how mobile operating systems have changed over the past 10 years, we compared the adoption of Android and iOS from the year 2010 until now.<\/p>\n

Homogenised market<\/h3>\n

The mobile operating system has become homogenised over time, with the vast majority of modern mobile devices now using either Android or iOS.<\/p>\n

This can be seen by the growth of the combined market cap of these two platforms over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

iOS was initially far more popular than Android, competing with SymbianOS for the top spot in the market at the beginning of 2010.<\/p>\n

This changed over time, however, as more smartphone brands adopted Android and smaller operating systems fell away.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the overall market share of Android is much higher than iOS, although its user base is distributed across a much higher number of different versions.<\/p>\n

iOS users, on the other hand, mostly all use the latest version of Apple’s software due to the proprietary nature of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n

We have compared the market share of Android and iOS over the past 10 years below.<\/p>\n

Overall market share data from 2010 to 2020 was sourced from StatCounter.com<\/strong><\/a>, while per-version market share over the past four years was taken from NetMarketShare<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Android vs iOS – 2010 to 2020<\/h3>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/th>\nAndroid<\/th>\niOS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2010<\/strong><\/td>\n4.54%<\/td>\n33.13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/strong><\/td>\n14.61%<\/td>\n25.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012<\/strong><\/td>\n23.21%<\/td>\n24.04%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/strong><\/td>\n36.87%<\/td>\n25.85%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/strong><\/td>\n44.62%<\/td>\n23.55%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015<\/strong><\/td>\n59.78%<\/td>\n22.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/strong><\/td>\n66.28%<\/td>\n19.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/strong><\/td>\n71.58%<\/td>\n19.73%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/strong><\/td>\n74.39%<\/td>\n19.64%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/strong><\/td>\n74.5%<\/td>\n22.85%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/strong><\/td>\n74.3%<\/td>\n24.76%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Mobile<\/a><\/p>\n

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2016 to 2020 – Android and iOS versions<\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mobile OS Market Share: 2016 \u2013 2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
OS Version<\/strong><\/td>\nJuly 2016<\/strong><\/td>\nJan 2017<\/strong><\/td>\nJan 2018<\/strong><\/td>\nJan 2019<\/strong><\/td>\nJan 2020<\/strong><\/td>\nJuly 2020<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 10.0<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n5.21%<\/td>\n22.38%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 9.0<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n0.16%<\/td>\n27.76%<\/td>\n20.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 8.0<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n1.26%<\/td>\n15.51%<\/td>\n5.56%<\/td>\n3.99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 7.0<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n0.76%<\/td>\n22.65%<\/td>\n8.45%<\/td>\n5.06%<\/td>\n3.78%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 6.0<\/strong><\/td>\n6.36%<\/td>\n25.44%<\/td>\n17.97%<\/td>\n10.11%<\/td>\n5.14%<\/td>\n3.91%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 5.1<\/strong><\/td>\n12.74%<\/td>\n15.98%<\/td>\n9.31%<\/td>\n5.25%<\/td>\n2.80%<\/td>\n1.99%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Android 4.4<\/strong><\/td>\n6.36%<\/td>\n12.63%<\/td>\n4.17%<\/td>\n2.60%<\/td>\n0.94%<\/td>\n0.58%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 13.5<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n21.23%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 13.3<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n19,84%<\/td>\n2.14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 12.1<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n20.14%<\/td>\n0.53%<\/td>\n0.24%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 11.2<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n19.26%<\/td>\n0.69%<\/td>\n0.18%<\/td>\n0.10%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 10.2<\/strong><\/td>\n–<\/td>\n16.44%<\/td>\n1.12%<\/td>\n0.25%<\/td>\n0.06%<\/td>\n0.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
iOS 9.3<\/strong><\/td>\n16.34%<\/td>\n2.21%<\/td>\n0.65%<\/td>\n0.26%<\/td>\n0.05%<\/td>\n0.02%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\"Android<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read: Older Huawei phones will no longer receive Android updates from Google<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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