Smartphone market: Android soon ahead of iPhone?
Apple's iPhone has won the hearts of early adopters with its design, user interface and many apps. But Google's Android system is currently catching up.
According to estimates by the Internet magazine eMarketer, the rivals will dominate the smartphone market in the USA by the end of 2012 with 31% (Google) and 30% (Apple). eMarketer's chief analyst Noah Elki attributes his forecast to the license-free and easy use of the Android operating system for smartphone manufacturers. At the end of 2010, 24 percent of Americans owned a smartphone. In 2009, the figure was six percent.
(Graphic: eMarketer.com)
