Right now there are only a couple of devices with a version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S but both smartphones have different versions of Ice Cream Sandwich. The Galaxy Nexus runs Android 4.0.2 while the Nexus S runs Android 4.0.3. Using that fact you can do … [Read more...]
Over 700,000 Android Devices Are Being Activated Every Day
December 21, 2011 By
Google's Android operating system has grown a lot ever since it arrived. And every once in a while Google announces some statistics on how many new Android phones are activated per day. And today Google's Andy Rubin announced on Google+ that over 700,000 Android phones are activated every … [Read more...]
Windows 7 Is Now The Most Popular Desktop Operating System
October 13, 2011 By
In October of 2009 Microsoft released Windows 7, or at least they released the retail version of Windows 7 towards the end of October. Since then Windows 7 has grown quite a bit. Within the first three months it grew bigger than the whole Mac OS X operating system, and then within ten months it … [Read more...]
MacBook Pros And iMacs Are The Best Selling PCs In The US
October 4, 2011 By
Apple hasn't been known to have a very large PC business, Microsoft and Windows have just been a lot more successful. But Apple does have the ability to release just a few devices that sell better than a whole lot of other devices combined. For example a few iOS devices sell better than a ton of … [Read more...]
Apple Makes The Most Phones But Android Is Bigger
July 28, 2011 By
Both Android and iOS are extremely popular currently in the smartphone market. They are the two biggest operating systems by far. And it looks like we have more information on the smartphone market share now giving us more up to date comparisons between all of the platforms. It actually turns out … [Read more...]
Smartphone Market Grows 80%, Samsung Grows 350%
May 6, 2011 By
Smartphones used to not be very common. That's because they were really expensive, the phones were expensive, and the slow data plans were expensive. And most of the time you could only get a BlackBerry or a Windows Mobile phone both of which at the time were designed really for business people. But … [Read more...]
iOS/Android Continue To Take Market Share In Mobile Gaming Market
April 18, 2011 By
A few years ago you didn't see all that many games on iOS and Android, and really Android and iOS weren't really around a few years ago too back in early 2007. But since then many games have been made for both platforms and they've became great mobile gaming platforms. They've actually became so big … [Read more...]
Windows 7 Just About To Get Ahead Of Windows XP In Market Share
April 11, 2011 By
If you can remember way back a year ago Windows XP was just dominating the Windows market share. Windows 7 wasn't all that popular but it has grown a whole lot since then, kind of like how much Google Chrome grew when it was announced. But it looks like Windows 7 is just about as big as Windows XP … [Read more...]
Visual Graph Of Smartphone Market Share In The United States
March 3, 2011 By
Tired of written statistics on how the smartphone market share is split up? Then you're in luck since there was a graph that shows off the market share that just got released. The graph is very nice looking and well organized. It splits the market share into operating system across the bottom, and … [Read more...]
Chrome Market Share Reaches 10%, iOS Browsing Reaches 2%
February 2, 2011 By
Web browsing habits have been changing a lot lately. iOS showed up and all of a sudden more and more people browsed the web on their mobile devices. Google created Chrome and all of a sudden many people switched over because they trusted Google. So some new browsing statistics are in that show the … [Read more...]
