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Android and iOS -> 95.7% smartphone shipments in 2013

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<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">Android </a>and<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank"> iOS</a> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">smartphone shipments</a> grew 6.1% year-over-year in 2013, making up for 93.8% of all smartphone shipments in the year, according to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">IDC's latest figures</a>.
 Q4 2013 numbers saw the two dominate platforms increase even further to
 account for 95.7% off all <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">smartphones</a> shipped, 4 percentage points 
higher than the same time the previous year.<br />
As we previously saw when <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">IDC </a>reported that smartphone shipments hit the 1 billion mark, Samsung dominated shipments followed by <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">Motorola</a> and <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">Huawei</a> once again pushing Android shipment growth well ahead of iOS.<br />
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Although<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank"> Apple's </a>mobile platform continued its positive trend, it 
experienced the lowest shipment growth at 6.7% for the quarter and 12.9%
 for the year. Due in large part to Nokia, Windows Phone on the other 
hand posted the largest shipment increases, 46.7% on the quarter and 
90.9% for the year. As you might have imagined, <a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank">BlackBerry</a> continued its
 downward spiral dipping -40.9 percentage points over the year.<br />
In its latest report,<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank"> IDC</a> also says the era of double digit yearly 
growth is<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank"> likely </a>to end overall and that these kinds of numbers only 
have a few years left. While marketing campaigns continue to be focused 
on flagship devices, the group's<a href="http://askneed.blogspot.com/2014/03/android-and-ios-made-up-for-957-of.html" target="_blank"> research</a> shows that consumer interest 
is rapidly shifting towards lower cost devices.