We have another storming piece of Android statistical good news today, courtesy, once again, of attention-grabbing, forward-looking, graph-making research company ChangeWave.
When ChangeWave asked people planning on buying a smartphone in the next 90 days what OS they were favouring, 30% of them said “ANDROID!”, compared to a lesser 21% last December. Apple’s all-conquering iPhone is pretty much static, moving up from 28% to 29%, while BlackBerry drops some 5%.
Here’s a quote from CW’s report:
“The Google Android OS has nearly doubled its market share in the three months since our previous survey in December. Among respondents who currently own a smart phone, 7% say it uses an Android mobile operating system compared with just 4% three months ago.
“Looking ahead, the explosive demand for the Android OS is likely to continue – with 30% of those planning to buy a smart phone in the next 90 days saying they’d prefer to have the Android OS on their new phone. That’s a huge 9-pt jump since December and a five-fold increase from just six months ago”
And now, the money-shot:
Read more over at ChangeWave, if you need yet more affirmation that ordering yourself an HTC Desire was very much the right thing to do.
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