Android Growing in the 5th Anniversary

On 5 November 2007, Google and T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola, and nearly 30 other companies to join and announce the development of Android, an open operating system that Google bought a year earlier.

Success did not come immediately, but now, five years after the "birth" inception, Android has become the most dominant Smartphone operating system with a market share of 75 percent, according to data from IDC's third quarter.

"Android came in at the right time, when the iPhone brings new trends and mobile operators need other products to challenge Apple's success," said Geoff Blaber from CCS Insight research firm, was quoted as saying by Techworld.

On tablet market, Android is also increasingly. A total of 10.2 million Android tablets were sold during the third quarter of this year so as to raise its market share to 41.3 percent from 29.2 percent last year, according to market research agency Strategy Analytics.

In the same period, Apple's market share declined from 64.5 percent to 56.7 percent.

In terms of sales per brand, no single Android device manufacturer could match Apple's sales volume. But collectively, these kinds of vendors Samsung and Asus to help increase market share Android.

What about the trend of Android in the future? Recently, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said that Android device activation numbers reached 1.3 million per day activation.

If the trend continues, then before the sixth year since its birth later, the total number of Android device activation will reach one billion.

Mastered Samsung

Samsung is one of the key factors in the success of Android, while HTC and Motorola Mobility which is a long time supporter of the operating system is having trouble competing.

Constraints experienced by HTC shows how difficult it is to compete with Samsung and its Galaxy family.

"HTC One X is a great product, but soon sank so Samsung launched the Galaxy S III," said Blaber.

HTC is not another manufacturer's first Android device sales decreased to 7.3 million units of Smartphone during the third quarter, compared to 12.7 million last year, according to data from IDC. Net profit had plummeted by 79 percent compared to the third quarter of 2011, to 133.5 million U.S. dollars.

In the same period, Samsung managed to sell 56.3 million units of Smartphone. Rival, Apple, the iPhone sold less than half that number, ie 26.9 million units. ZTE has been thrust into the fourth largest Smartphone manufacturer in the event.

However, just like when Android first launched, the gadget manufacturers do not have much alternative OS choices.

"That is the difficulty faced by many mobile phone manufacturers today," said Blaber again.

Windows Phone could be an alternative, but it still needs to prove himself. The situation could change in the last quarter of this year, where a number of smartphones Windows Phone 8 will start the sales, according to the explanation of the IDC.

Break the dominance of Android, according to Ramon Llamas, IDC's research manager, is not easy. In each year since the launch of the first device, Android has passed and takes market share from its competitors.