Android to overtake iPhone, BlackBerry by 2013
Base on mobile analysts IDC estimations on 2013, Android, Google’s mobile operating system, will outdo both iPhone and Blackberry operating systems.
According to IDC, Android will gain an install-base of 68 million handsets, giving it second place in the platform wars.
It’s also predicted that Symbian, the open-source operating system owned by Nokia which currently dominates the world’s feature phone market, will continue to dominate.
IDC suggests that it’ll keep the top spot from Android by virtue of its popularity outside of North America.
Meanwhile, Linux and webOS are predicted to tail off.
Android remained small for most of its first year but has rapidly grown through late 2009 and early 2010 as companies like Acer, Dell, LG, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have all launched their own phones using the software. In some cases, companies have either started off using Android for their first smartphones or even replaced some if not all of their Linux and Windows Mobile devices with the more modern, open OS.
