Apple and Google once again have dominated the worldwide smartphone operating system market share, but one mobile platform has been recognized for its improvements.
"However, the winner of this quarter is Microsoft which grew 123 percent," Gartner's principal research analyst Anshul Gupta said. "Microsoft announced the intent to acquire Nokia's devices and services business, which we believe will unify effort and help drive appeal of Windows ecosystem."
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The Microsoft Windows Phone smartphone operating system encountered a minor increase but enough to improve its ranks from sixth place to third when comparing the third quarter in 2012 and the same period this year. Windows Phone accounted for 2.3 percent of the smartphone market share worldwide during the third quarter last year, losing to Google Android, Apple's iOS, BlackBerry, Bada and Symbian.
For the third quarter of 2013, the Microsoft smartphone operating system finished with 3.6 percent of the market share.
Google Android easily held first place and saw an increase of 9.3 percentage points from the third quarter in 2012. Android finished 2013's third quarter with 81.9 percent of the market share, up from 72.6 percent last year.
iOS comfortably held second place despite losing 2.2 percentage points in the process. The Apple smartphone operating system garnered 12.1 percent of the market share during the third quarter this year.
BlackBerry suffered the worst percentage loss based on Gartner's latest figures. BlackBerry fell by 3.4 percentage points since accounting for 5.2 percent of the smartphone market share during the third quarter of 2012. Previously holding third place, BlackBerry placed fourth for the third quarter of 2013 with 1.8 percent of the market share.
Bada also encountered a fall from 2.6 percent of the market share last year to 0.3 percent for the third quarter of 2013.
Finally, Symbian accounted for 0.2 percent of the third quarter smartphone operating system market share.
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