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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: A Record 230 Million Smartphones Shipped Q2 2013 |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: A Record 230 Million Smartphones Shipped Q2 2013","summary" : "According to research done by Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments grew 47 percent from 156.5 million units in the second quarter of 2012 to 229.6 million units in the second quarter of 2013.  Additionally, the research finds that this growth is being driven by demand for Android phones","date" : "2013-08-06T11:45:35-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brandon-barr" : "Brandon Barr"},"topics" : {
        
            "emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
            "mobile" : "Mobile"
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2013/08/2013-08-06-trends-on-tuesday-a-record-230-million-smartphones-shipped-q2-2013.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-a-record-230-million-smartphones-shipped-q2-2013","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/08/06/trends-on-tuesday-a-record-230-million-smartphones-shipped-q2-2013/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/01/smartphones.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/01/smartphones-250x166.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A stack of smartphones\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eAccording to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/WSS/post/2013/08/01/Strategy-Analytics-Android-Captures-Record-80-Percent-Share-of-Global-Smartphone-Shipments-in-Q2-2013.aspx\"\u003eresearch done by Strategy Analytics\u003c/a\u003e, global smartphone shipments grew 47 percent from 156.5 million units in the second quarter of 2012 to 229.6 million units in the second quarter of 2013. Additionally, the research finds that this growth is being driven by demand for Android phones in countries such as the US, China, India, and Brazil. Strikingly, Android now makes up for 80% of the global smartphone market. Apple, on the other hand, is at its lowest share margin since 2010, sitting at 14 % of the market. The remaining percentage of the market share belongs to Microsoft (4 %) and others.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlobal Smartphone OS Shipments (Millions of Units) \u003cstrong\u003eQ2 ’12  vs. Q2 ’13\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndroid    108.7  182.6\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApple iOS   26       31.2\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft   5.6      8.9\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOthers      16.2      6.9\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTotal      156.5    229.6\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlobal Smartphone OS Marketshare %  Q2 ’12  vs.  Q2 ’13\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndroid    69.50%  79.50%\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApple iOS   16.60%  13.60%\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMicrosoft   3.60%   3.90%\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOthers      10.40%  3.00%\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTotal Growth Year-over-Year %  –  41.60%    46.70%\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis data shows that mobile adoption continues to rise rapidly worldwide.  Agencies should keep this in mind and take a \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/09/30/mobile-first/\" title=\"Mobile First\"\u003emobile first approach.\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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