Apple, Google, and Microsoft have seen an increase of their respective smartphone operating systems in Spain, based on statics collected during the three months ending in September 2013.
For Google's mobile operating system, Android easily squashed its competition while increasing its market share in the process.
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Android, during the three months ending in September this year, accounted for 90 percent of the smartphone operating system market share in Spain.
The 90 percent market share for Android came as the Google smartphone platform saw a 5.7 percentage point increase from the same three-month period in 2012.
Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone could only manage single-digit figures since Android dominated the smartphone platform market share.
iOS narrowly won second place in Spain. iOS and Windows Phone have been in a close battle for third place in the past. For the three-month period ending in September 2012, Apple squeezed its way ahead of Microsoft's smartphone platform by 0.2 percentage points. For the same period this year, iOS managed to extend the lead by 1.1 percentage points.
For the three months ending in September 2013, iOS garnered 4.8 percent of the Spanish smartphone market share, which was enough to give Apple second place. The percentage for iOS is double from the three-month period in 2012 when the Apple smartphone platform accounted for 2.4 percent.
Windows Phone may have lost against iOS, but it improved its ranking from fourth to third place. Windows Phone increased its market share by 1.5 percentage points from 2012 to 2013. The Microsoft smartphone platform finished September 2013 with 3.7 percent.
BlackBerry suffered the worst market share percentage loss based on Kantar Worldpanel's statistics. BlackBerry tripped from second place to fourth place. The smartphone platform had five percentage points during the three months ending in September 2012 but ended up with 0.3 percent by September this year.
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