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Well known research firm IDC has predicted a growth of 55 pct year-over-year in the global smartphone market for 2011. The growth, as per IDC, will result since most of the users are switching over to smartphones to experience the exclusive services. Furthermore, IDC shared that in the present year, the vendors will ship 472 million smartphones, as compared to last year, when 305 million of them were shipped. The research firm said that the consumer demand for the smartphones has increased due to decrease in prices, increased functionality and lower-cost data plans, adding that the market will grow more than four times the rate of the overall worldwide mobile phone market in 2011. Given the increasing demand of smartphones in emerging demand, it seems that by the year 2015, smartphone unit shipments will increase to 982 million. Coming to the major platforms, IDC forecasts that Google's Android mobile operating system will arise as the strongest contender as it might control over 40 percent of the global smartphone market by the end of 2011 and reach 43.8 percent market share by 2015. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Phone, which is taking over Symbian as Nokia's primary smartphone OS, will cover merely 3.8 percent of the market as 2011; however will hike to 20.3 percent by 2015. On the other hand, the end of this year will witness Symbian eroding to 0.1 pct from 20.6 percent by the conclusion of the forecast period. Coming to Apple’s iOS, it will hopefully command 18.2 percent of the worldwide smartphone market by the end of this year, as per IDC, which also feels that Apple will make up 16.9 percent by 2015. Finally Research In Motion's BlackBerry, will represent 14.2 percent of the smartphone market in 2011 and 13.4 percent in 2015. IDC concluded by saying that though iOS and BlackBerry will have to bear declines in overall market share, but there would be consistent rise in shipment volumes throughout the forecast period. For more interesting information about mobile apps development and iPhone apps development visit www.mobileprogramming.com
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