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iOS is about to displace Windows/DOS as the top selling OS in the U.S. A Microsoft OS has probably been the top seller for the last 30 years. Just a rough bac

by steveb 15y ago

iOS is about to displace Windows/DOS as the top selling OS in the U.S. A Microsoft OS has probably been the top seller for the last 30 years. Just a rough back of the envelope calculation is 12-13 million iOS devices sold in the U.S. this quarter. (7 million iPhone, 3.5 iPad, 1.6 iPod Touch at 35% US/Global). In comparison, 2Q11 non-Mac PC sales in the U.S. were about 16 million (and shrinking). iPhone 5 on sprint/T-mobile and iPad 2 Christmas sales will give iOS a good chance to take the lead.

ugh 15y ago
What about Android? It seems that worldwide quite a few more Android devices than iOS devices are activated per day. Are less than 35% of all Android devices sold in the US?
- steveb 15y ago
  Based on U.S. market share, Android would be selling about 10 million a quarter in the U.S., so depending on growth they may or may not be the ones to displace Windows first. In order to get to 15 million this quarter, Android would have to be outselling iPhone over 2 to 1 in the U.S. to make up for the iPad/iPod Touch. Android will get a good boost if the rumored Amazon tablet comes out. It's just a matter of time.
- gte910h 15y ago
  Where do you get that number?
  - ugh 15y ago
    From Apple’s and Google’s Q2 quarterly earnings call, respectively. Google just announced that they activate 550,000 Android devices per day. That’s in all likelihood (and considering the language) not an average value for the whole quarter but only the most recent value (that must have been rapidly growing during the last quarter). Still, the average for the last quarter is probably over or around 500,000. Apple doesn’t publish any such numbers but it’s easy to estimate them. Apple sold 20m iPhones, 9m iPads and 8m iPods. Tim Cook said during the earnings call that about half of those iPods run iOS. That’s about 33m iOS devices altogether for the whole quarter, for an average of 360,000 sold devices per day.
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trotsky 15y ago
While I can't find numbers, I suspect you'd find that one or more embedded RTOS's like VxWorks or linux outships windows by a significant margin - DVD players, TV's, dumb phones, security systems etc. Windows has the crown for desktop OS, but of course iOS won't overtake that without a product shift.
- ramchip 15y ago
  ITRON probably has a lot more installs than all these OSes, although I don't think it's very popular in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron (with source code)

by steveb 15y ago

ugh 15y ago

What about Android? It seems that worldwide quite a few more Android devices than iOS devices are activated per day. Are less than 35% of all Android devices sold in the US?

steveb 15y ago
Based on U.S. market share, Android would be selling about 10 million a quarter in the U.S., so depending on growth they may or may not be the ones to displace Windows first. In order to get to 15 million this quarter, Android would have to be outselling iPhone over 2 to 1 in the U.S. to make up for the iPad/iPod Touch. Android will get a good boost if the rumored Amazon tablet comes out. It's just a matter of time.
gte910h 15y ago
Where do you get that number?
- ugh 15y ago
  From Apple’s and Google’s Q2 quarterly earnings call, respectively. Google just announced that they activate 550,000 Android devices per day. That’s in all likelihood (and considering the language) not an average value for the whole quarter but only the most recent value (that must have been rapidly growing during the last quarter). Still, the average for the last quarter is probably over or around 500,000. Apple doesn’t publish any such numbers but it’s easy to estimate them. Apple sold 20m iPhones, 9m iPads and 8m iPods. Tim Cook said during the earnings call that about half of those iPods run iOS. That’s about 33m iOS devices altogether for the whole quarter, for an average of 360,000 sold devices per day.

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trotsky 15y ago

While I can't find numbers, I suspect you'd find that one or more embedded RTOS's like VxWorks or linux outships windows by a significant margin - DVD players, TV's, dumb phones, security systems etc. Windows has the crown for desktop OS, but of course iOS won't overtake that without a product shift.

ramchip 15y ago
ITRON probably has a lot more installs than all these OSes, although I don't think it's very popular in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_Project http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron http://www.t-engine.org/tron-project/itron (with source code)