Operating systems for mobile platforms (world market)

2019

Revolution of smartphones was Android revolution. Shares of Android and iOS in the countries of the world. Data for 2019.

2017

The market of the future - the market of frameworks

2010-2014 Forecast

During the period from 2010 to 2014 the platform share Apple iOS in the world market smartphones will be reduced by 25.8% - from 14.7% to 10.9%. At the same time Windows the Mobile/Phone platform share for the same period will grow by 43.3% - from 6.8% to 9.8%, the report says IDC.

Analysts do not state the reasons of reduction of a share of IOS, explaining growth of a share of Windows Mobile/Phone with the future updating of the platform (in Russia the first devices based on Windows Phone 7 should be available for sale at the end of current or the beginning of 2011).

Meanwhile, Symbian^3 platform inspires analysts much less, than Windows Phone. According to their forecast, during the specified period the share of all versions of Symbian will be reduced by 18% - from 40.1% in 2010 to 32.9% in 2014. However this platform will save leadership for at least four next years.

At the same time, analysts continue to claim that growth of a share of Android will be the most considerable. According to the new report, during the period from 2010 to 2014 the share of the created Google of the open platform will grow by 51.2% - from 16.3% to 24.6%. It is interesting to notice that among all leading platforms only Windows Mobile/Phone, according to the forecast of IDC, within the next years will show the growth rate comparable to growth rate of a share of Android.

Analysts explain popularity of Android with flexibility of the platform: she allows producers and operators to create such devices what they want and to equip with their own covers, applications and services, trying to obtain the maximum extent of differentiation. It is supposed what in version 3.0 of the Android platform is not present will be opportunities to put corporate covers over its own interface. Earlier in DigiTimes Research foretold that in 2010 55 million smartphones, in 6 times more, than in 2009 will be produced. Earlier in Gartner assumed that Android in 2012 will take the second place in the market of smartphones with a share in 14%

In the last report analysts of IDC raised the supply rate of smartphones predicted earlier to the world market in 2010 by 10%. According to the updated forecast, deliveries of smartphones will grow by 55.4% - up to 269.6 million pieces against 173.5 million in 2009. Having raised the forecast for smartphones, analysts also to the best corrected the supply rate of mobile phones of all types - for 1.5% in comparison with earlier predicted value. Now analysts claim that deliveries of mobile phones in 2010 to the world market will grow by 14.1% in comparison with 2009. Last year deliveries were reduced by 2.8%.

In 2011, according to the forecast of IDC, world deliveries of smartphones will grow by 24.5% in comparison with the current year. In the years ahead the growth rate will also decrease and will be only 13.6% in 2014. According to analysts, despite a large number of market participants, any of them will not be able to occupy the share comparable to a share which Windows occupies in the market of computers (about 90%).

In the report it is also reported that in the first half of 2010 119.4 million smartphones were supplied to the world market, is 55.5% more in comparison with the same period of last year according to the results of which supply rate was 76.8 million devices.

2012: In Europe the companies preferred Android to the Windows Mobile system

The operating system Windows Mobile concedes Android a rank of the most actively adaptable platform among the enterprises of the region EMEA: the last, according to^[1], for the fourth quarter 2012 increased the share in the specified market by 11% up to 36%. The share Apple iOS for the same period decreased from 56% to 42%, and Windows Mobile developped a share for 2% up to 21%.

Shares of systems in the world market of corporate mobile OS

Citrix, 2013

It is interesting that, according to Citrix though in corporate environment in Europe gained Google Android the lead, in general in the world of the enterprise give preference first of all to the Apple iOS – 58% of global market of corporate mobile operating systems fell to its share.

Shares of systems in the world market of corporate mobile OS on the vertical industries

Citrix, 2013

In general iOS is often selected by the companies of those vertical industries where users often interact with clients, for example, in retail and restaurant business. Android is preferred by the organizations rendering services, for example, transport and power. Received the greatest penetration in corporate environment of Android into the health care industries and also on transport. iOS is most actively used by law and insurance companies.

Top of 20 applications in corporate App Stores

Citrix, 2013

Also researchers note that the organizations even more often resort to use of "black lists" of applications, aiming to ensure safety of corporate data and to protect users from undesirable pastime. Most often Angry Birds, Facebook, Dropbox and YouTube are included in such lists. Evernote, NitroDesk TouchDown, Google Chrome and Adobe Reader most often appear in "white lists". Skype at the same time often is included as lists permitted, and in lists of the permitted programs.

2000e

In the 2000th years of the device on different versions of Palm OS occupied more than a half of the market of the CPC. Except the system of letter by letter handwriting text recognition Graffiti, in Palm OS there was one more "counter" — the Security built-in application which was used for protection and concealment of records by the password. In all basic applications — put the addresses, the calendar, notes and the list — record could mark with the Private icon, and only after password entry they were available to reading and editing. Devices released not only Palm, but also Handspring, Samsung, Lenovo, Garmin, Kyocera, Sony, Symbol, etc.

In total 47 different PDA and 20 smartphones on Palm OS were released. Sales reached a pica in 2006, but faded to the middle of the 2007th. It was affected by a variety of reasons, including several merges and merger of developer company, limited opportunities in comparison with competitors of Windows Mobile and Apple iPhone, lack of interest of Hawkins in a subject of the CPC (he was interested in machine learning more) and financial crisis.

Palm OS Garnet (5.4.x) became the most popular version. In 2007 it was renamed into Garnet OS. And in 2009 the new version of the operating system called Palm webOS was submitted. Since 2010 was engaged in its development in HP which purchased Palm company. In 2012 source codes of webOS uploaded publicly, thus the operating system began to belong to the open source. Was engaged in its development in LG Electronics. Today it is used only for smart TVs.

In 2000 Microsoft released Windows Mobile for the hardware platforms Pocket PC (the CPC and communicators) and Smartphone (smartphones). However and it did not sustain the competition to Android and iOS because was expensive to mobile device manufacturers and quite exacting to "iron". It is not supported since 2011.

Instead of it in 2010 started the Windows Phone 7 operating system (in the 2012th — Windows Phone 8) for smartphones, it was remembered by lack of compatibility with the previous applications. It is constructed based on desktop Windows NT OS. From "counters" — the "tiled" Metro UI interface and the built-in Microsoft Office Mobile office suite. Devices released HTC, LG, Samsung, Dell, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Acer, Nokia, ZTE and others. Since 2016 Windows 10 Mobile was called. Disappeared in 2019.

iPhone OS, afterwards renamed into iOS, appeared in 2007 as the operating system for smartphones, tablets and the smartwatch. It is developed on the basis of OS X. iOS is obliged by the popularity to the revolutionary interface in which developers refused management and text entering of a feather (stylus) and created a management system for fingers ("multi-touch"). The successful marketing policy, Steve Jobs's charisma, an attractive design promoted growth in sales of the iPhone smartphones up to 2010. Besides, the iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets enter an ecosystem of Apple, perfectly interacting with its computer equipment.

One year later — in the 2008th — the market was entered by Android OS. It ensured functioning of smartphones, tablets, digital players, e-books, smartwatch and bracelets, computers, game consoles, TVs, robots and other devices. It is developed on Linux kernel by the company of the same name purchased then Google. The alliance Open Handset Alliance (OHA) which includes more than 100 producers is engaged in further development of Android. Android is the unconditional leader among Mobile OS — occupies 87% of the market, according to IDC (the III quarter of the 2019th) due to a large number of devices of the most different price category, use of the latest technologies. Growth of Android was influenced that with support a touchscreen device were cheaper than "iPhones", were issued many producers, attracted with new opportunities which did not give conservative IOS-DEVICES (for example, support of 2 sim cards appeared in iPhones only in 2018 with a release of IOS 12.1).

The big role in distribution of IOS and Android was played by the number of the applications easily available measured by millions in AppStore and Google Play online stores. Installation of applications became possible clicking of one button. It was necessary to find the program in numerous directories or on the websites of developers earlier, to purchase somehow, to download on the computer, to rewrite in the mobile device, having connected a cable, and only then to set it, having started an installer. Not everyone was capable of it. Now preschool children easily cope with this task.

1993-1999

In 1994 Psion was engaged in development of the following, already 32-bit EPOC which in 1998 received the name Symbian OS. A system was used in smartphones and communicators Nokia Samsung Sony Ericsson, Motorola and three tens more mobile device manufacturers. Symbian OS lived till 2012, grew old from a lack of attention of third-party developers and safely died, without having sustained the competition with iOS and Android. It was finished by Nokia — the largest producer of devices on Symbian OS, relied on Windows the Mobile platform.

In 1993 Newton OS from Apple company appeared. Already in the first model of "the personal digital assistant" (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA) Newton MessagePad worked the system of recognition of the conjoint handwritten text Calligrapher created by our compatriots under the leadership of ParaGraph International Inc. Hand-written characters registered the plastic handle stylus on the touch monochrome screen and were transferred to the printing text at once or after input of the whole word. It is interesting that recognition and the Russian text — after training and letter by letter input in a small window was possible.

The term PDA (we begot the name of the PDA — the personal digital assistant) was offered by John Scully, the CEO of Apple of that time and the apologist of Newton. In the first Newton models recognition worked imperfectly, but then even received an award. In the commercial plan the Newton project failed, despite release of 7 models of Apple and 5 partner from Sharp and Motorola. They were quite large and expensive. Very few people wanted to pay from $700 to $1000 for an electronic organizer, though advanced.

The 1996th — Palm OS year of birth. In 1989 Jeff Hawkins with partners developed the first-ever tablet computer with hand-written input of GRiDPad working running the MS-DOS operating system. The same year he patented the method of letter by letter handwriting text recognition which became later Palm OS "counter". Hawkins saw perspectives of PDA in consumer market provided that the device will be very compact, convenient in work, will be able to exchange data with the PC and its cost will not exceed $300. Pilot 1000 of Palm Computing company which entered the market in 1996 was such — and really became successful.

In 1996 one more noticeable "character" in the history of mobile OS — Microsoft Windows CE appeared. The abridged version of "desktop" Windows 95 OS optimized for processors of x86, MIPS, ARM, SuperH and PowerPC. It was used in keyboard personal digital assistants, then became the platform for keyboardless touch PDA based on Microsoft Pocket PC and Windows Mobile OS. Were a part "light" - versions of Word applications, Excel, Internet Explorer, etc.

In 1999 one more legend — BlackBerry OS of the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) which was used for corporate smartphones and communicators was born. Along with fixed functions of an organizer and work with texts of the BlackBerry device could transfer each other the ciphered e-mails and instant messages, using peer-to-peer technology and the special server. Was considered that competitors could not intercept messages in business and to intelligence agencies. But BlackBerry got accustomed not everywhere.

1988

The first full mobile operating system can be considered EPOC16 (the code name SIBO — SIxteen Bit Organizer, or SIxteen Bit Operating system) developed in 1988 by the English professor David Potter, the founder of Psion PLC company. a 16-bit system written in language C for a processor family of Intel 8086 (x86) was used in laptops and the pocket computers Psion MC200, Psion 3 and in later. EPOC16 supported a mnogookonnost, placement of labels on a desktop. The text editor, the alarm clock, the calculator, a file manager and other^[2] were its part the calendar (meetings, tasks, voice notes, reminders on birthdays), the database for the address directory^[3].

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