Technological acceleration: Chrome and Android marketshare increasing

6 October 2011 Geoff Zeiss

I blogged earlier about the acceleration in the rate of technology adoption.  Statistics released recently show rapid changes in market share in smart phones and browsers.

Smartphones

In the US 84.5 million people own smartphones.  According to ComScore, Android’s marketshare of the US smartphone market for the three month period ending August, 2011 leads its nearest competitor by a considerable and increasing margin.

  1. Android – 43.7 % (up from 38.1 % in the previous 3-month period)
  2. iOS – 27.3 % (26.6 %)
  3. Blackberry OS – 19.7% (24.7 %)
  4. Windows Mobile/Phone 7 – 5.7 %
  5. Symbian – 1.8 %

It wasn’t that long ago that iOS was the clear market leader. And it wasn’t that long before that that Blackberry OS dominated the smart phone market.

Browsers

According to StatCounter, Chrome’s share of the global market for August is about  23.6%, somewhat behind Firefox. Internet Explorer at 41.7% is still the dominant player in the market, but appears to be losing marketshare rapidly.

Since the beginning of 2011, Chrome increased its marketshare by 8%.  Firefox’s share has decreased by 4% and IE’s share has decreased by 9%.

It wasn;t that long ago that IE had over 90% of the browser market.  Chrome was only introduced in December, 2008 and already is approaching owning a quarter of the market.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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