According to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, Google’s fledgling Android OS has the potential to become the number two mobile operating system (behind Symbian OS) by 2012.
This certainly sounds like a bit of a stretch considering that currently Android is operating on less than 2% of the world’s smartphones. However, in a recent interview with Computerworld, Dulaney said that he sees Google’s open mobile platform expanding to upwards of 14% market penetration over the next 24 months.
He supports his claim by citing the fact that some 40 new Android-powered devices are expected to be launched over the next year alone.
“Android rises to number two simply because, unlike Apple, they license their OS to multiple OEMs,” Dulaney said. “They have the number 2 OEM, Samsung, and strong players like LG, Motorola, HTC and now Dell. There are others in the works.”
Combine all the new handsets with the enormous draw that Google itself brings to the table, not to mention the anticipated release of Android 2.0, and the fact that Android is open source and has slowly but surely become more attractive to developers, and Dulaney may be on to something here.
[via GigaOM and AppleInsider]
May be it is possible.But WinMo cant get 12.8% or near.It will stay around 8-9 %
Android development is starting to look like a pretty clear IT career path. My opinion….
It seems that j2me will have good penetration in the future now (80%) and in future (65%). J2ME application should be possible to port to Android app too, then j2me penetration is even better.
It’s the second time today I have to correct this. The headline should read “Analyst: Android to become #2 smartphone OS by 2012″. The Gartner report is not about all mobile operating systems, it’s about smartphone operating systems. Dumbphones OSes are in a whole different league scale wise.
Meh, Gartner has never been wrong about Linux.
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I think they are wrong about this. I actually think it will take the #2 spot sooner. Reading reviews and spending time looking at upcoming tech from phone makers I see many adopting the Android platform. HTC is producing more and more as well as Motorola now dedicating itself to the platform, I think we will see it snowball, getting bigger exponentially.
Android has really come into its own and with each version it just gets better, combine that with the big red V now pedaling Android phones…
Being a Verizon customer, I have been waiting for Android to come. Having played with every phone that the Verizon store has, I hated them all. I found somthing crappy about them all, having played with the my touch at the t-mobile store, I was instantly in love.
why do all Android phones seem to be either slide out keyboards or rounded on the bottom?
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/19/android-galore-a-complete-list-of-the-android-phones-and-their-specs-droid-best/