“Some new figures relating to smartphone adoption across Europe paint a picture of a continent dominated by iOS, but like past European empires it’s starting to falter …
Across the countries included in the StatCounter data set iOS takes a whopping 44.95% of the market with Android, which is advancing at a blistering pace globally, only managing to scrounge up a rather meagre 16.37%. However, that isn’t the full story as back in February of last year iOS held over 50% of the market and has steadily declined since then. Android on the other hand had almost no marketshare just a year ago and ever since summer 2010 has rapidly climbed in popularity, overtaking a declining Symbian and reaching parity with BlackBerry OS. Speaking of Symbian it fell from around 24% in January last year to around half that figure last month. BlackBerry OS too is on the downward spiral although it does still manage to put in an impressive showing in the UK with over 36% of the market.” via mobile-review.com