Gartner predicts that by 2012 Android is expected to be on 49% of Smartphone, when Apple’s iOS only on 19%

11 Apr 2011 | News | Miss Hello Kitty on Google+

Acording to the latest Gartner’s prediction, Google Android will be used by half of all phones that would be sold next year, when the iPhone and its iOS will fall to 19% of sold units.

Android will become the top of the line operating system in the world by the end of 2011. A new prediction by Gartner was published on Thursday, which says that in 2011 smartphone sales will reach near 468 million units all over the world. That’s a 57.7 increase from 2011.

Gartner’s company thinks Android accounting for about 49 percent of the smartphone mart by 2012. To compare, in 2011 Apple’s iOS has 19.4% share and falling to 18.9% global part of smartphone operating system in 2012.

And by the beginning of 2015, in accordance with Gartner’s forecast, Microsoft will surpass Apple’s OS in smartphone operating system market share. The research firm thinks that in 2015 Microsoft will have 19.5% of the mart, and Apple’s share will be 17.2%.

Nevertheless, it was predicted that in 2014 iOS would stay the second largest platform all over the world. A firm that made a research says that Apple will be more interested in supporting its profit than haunting market share and sharply changing its strategy of price. iOS is considered to reach the peak in the market part in 2011.

There have been a lot of rumors that Apple wanted to build a nonexpensive iPhone that could be easily sold with no contracts or carrier subsidy. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook dropped a hint that his company had a target to make some clever things in order to enter into rivalry in the prepaid handset mart.

A main Gartner’s analyst said that by 2015 the average selling price of 67% of all OS devices will be $300, and this proved that smartphones have been democratized. The price will fall to benefit customers, as manufacturers delivering Android-based units are still fighting for the market part.

A position of Android will be still strong at the end of the mart, but its largest volume of capacity in the long term will be in the nonexpensive smartphones, primarily in emerging market.