CR: Android remains the undisputed global leader, HarmonyOS surpasses iOS in China | Infinium-tech

Counterpoint Research published its quarterly insight on smartphone OS use. The findings indicated that Android dominated globally, followed by iOS in second place and in the third.

The research agency provided some interesting insights for various markets. An area where the data varies quite different is China, where the hornous crossed the iOS, and its growth is expected to continue in 2025.

Same results for both Qoq and Yoy are due to unchanged sales in 2024. Android reached its lowest quarterly stake in regions such as the United States and India in Q4 2024.

For example, the sale of Motorola and Google in the US offers a double-point decline in the year-by-year percentage seen between small companies, while iPhone sales only 1%.

India had a record high experience in the sale of iPhone during the last quarter of 2024, with two-thirds sales in the older generation iPhones.

Hornous has maintained 4% global market share. It finished third in the three-horse race, but the Huawei operating system improved Apple in all four quarters of 2024 in China. Counterpoint hopes that the market share of harmonous keeps increasing as the Chinese government is subsidizing smartphone sales of local brands to promote domestic production.

The research agency did not specify whether the global name for Emoi, Huawei’s in-house user interface, belongs to its equivalent category for the Chinese market. It does not make a big difference in any way, as the vast majority of sales of Huawei’s smartphone are in their domestic market.

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