While iOS lost 0.7 percentage points year-on-year in the country, its 35.1% market share is actually “the first increase since October 2015, though modest at just 0.4%, from 34.7% to 35.1%” according to Kantar Business Unit Director Dominic Sunnebo.
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The downgrade iOS 10 beta process will now begin, and it will barely take a few minutes depending on the age of your iOS device and the speed of your Internet connection as well.
How this will work with older devices remains to be seen. “Windows phones exiting the market, this battle will only intensify”, Lauren Guenveur, Consumer Insight Director for Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, points out.
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In addition to all the reports about the specs and features, it is said that the much-awaited iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus would be released in early-mid September 2016. Android represented 58.5% of the market in that period, a gain of 4.1% year-on-year.
The study shows that in urban China, Android captured 78.8-percent of the smartphone sales – up 4.8-percent year-on-year.
“While movement from feature phones to smartphones has slowed significantly in developed markets like the USA and EU5, this still makes up a significant proportion of smartphone sales in Urban China”.
The first is the growing mix of first-time smartphone buyers in regions like China. Android share accounted for 67.6% of smartphone sales in the U.S. and 78.8% in China. “While movement from featurephones to smartphones has slowed significantly in developed markets like the USA and EU5, this still makes up a significant proportion of smartphone sales in Urban China”. Among people buying a replacement Android phone, about 91.4 percent were previous Android owners.
“In both Europe and the U.S., the smartphone market is approaching saturation, and future successes for either of the two dominant ecosystems will come chiefly from drawing customers away from the other”, Guenveur continued.
Microsoft VoIP integration on Windows Phone 8: Interestingly, Apple isn’t the first smartphone maker that masks VoIP calls as standard ones. Apple’s iOS saw its market share decline from 33.2 percent to 30.7 percent in the most recent period.
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Apple’s iOS 10 offers a number of new features for users including a redesigned Apple Music, Photos, Messages, and Maps app along with third-party developer support for Siri and more.
