Android will rule em all

According to the latest predictions by Gartner (one of the world's leading information technology research and advisory company) Android’s mobile platform will dominate the smartphone market and lead way ahead of its competitors. Be it Apple’s iOS or the RIM, Android will be in a commanding position till 2015 grabbing the majority of the market share. Predictions for the current FY 2011 for Android is very impresssive around 38% where as iOS market share will be around 19% and RIM’s share will be something around 13% (The % mentioned are World Wide).

Surprisingly Gartner’s analyst seems to be in love with the concept that now Nokia is happy to run WP7 (Windows Phone 7) Windows mobile OS on their smartphones. For details please see the chart below. It is no surprise that the current Nokia mobile OS (Symbian) is a dying breed and will soon perish, but interestingly Windows phone will see some surge in the coming years as per the predictions by Gartner.

Here is the very sweet chart, courtesy Gartner (how can they calculate the figures to be such accuarte to the very decimal point is still a mystery to me).

Anyway Android as we all know is going strong and will continue to be open source in nature as per the latest comments by Andy Rubin who is the founder of Android and now works with Google, after Google acquired Android in August 2005. Andy was responding to the latest buzz that Google is taking long time to release the source code of the latest Android OS 3.0 codenamed Honeycomb to the developers and the developers are under the impression that Android will no longer be open source. In another incident the developers of the Android platform are protesting due to the fragmentation issues within Android, that will be make coding Android an uphill task. Anyway the numbers in the chart above predicts that there is no stopping for Android as of now or anytime soon.