The smartphone market is set for its slowest ever year of growth, according to new figures on Thursday, while overall shipments for wearable technology continues to soar.
Worldwide smartphone shipments will hit 1.43 billion units in 2015, a year-on-year growth of 9.8 percent, the first full-year of single-digit growth on record, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Google’s Android mobile operating system (OS) is expected to have a 81.2 percent market share this year, growing 9.5 percent from the year before. Apple’s iOS is forecast to own 15.8 percent of the market, with shipments growing 17.3 percent year-on-year, while Windows Phone will have just 2.2 percent market share, a 10.2 percent decline.
(Source: CNBC)