99.6% of new smartphones run iOS or Android; RIP Windows and Blackberry From the article: According to the latest figures from Gartner, both Android and iOS expanded their share of the market in 2016, while sales of Windows and Blackberry continued their free fall to the base of the cliff. Gartner says that just 1.1 million Windows smartphones were sold in Q4 2016, down from 4.4 million in Q4 2015. Similarly, Blackberry device sales fell from 906,000 to 208,000. The action at the top of the sales table, between Apple and Samsung, was a little more exciting. For the first time since Q4 2014 Apple has apparently retaken pole position from Samsung, with 77 million iPhones shifted last quarter versus 76.8 million units for the Korean chaebol. Samsung still shipped the most smartphones over the course of 2016, but its share of the market decreased from 22.5 percent to 20.5. The largest percentage gains were achieved by Huawei, Oppo BBK, which have been pushing their surprisingly-good-but-cheaper-than-flagship phones into other countries outside their Chinese homeland. See http://ift.tt/2ktFr25
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