Smartphone OS marketshare April update: Android dominates, iOS grows, Windows Phone passes 5% threshold

The latest smartphone OS marketshare numbers are in from Kantar and they refer to the three-month period that ended in April 2013. Google’s Android is still leading the chart of OS percentage share of smartphone sales, with its 51.7%, up from 50.3% in the same period ending in April last year. However, it’s growth is much slower than the one at which iOS is trending, up from 39.1% last year to 41.4% this April. Last year the gap between the two was 11.2% and this April it is down to 10.3%; not a spectacular decrease, but a steady trend, at least in the US. There is also good ...

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