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So iOS has increased its share by 6.09% as Android has shrunk. It doesn't materially change that Android has the greater number of phones in the market.

Total shipments grew to 722.4 million, a nearly 50% jump from 494.5 million in 2011. And the combined Android-IOS market share soared from 68.1% in 2011 to 87.6% last year. Top Five Smartphone ...

This is significant because Android has long had a steady lead over iOS using the data metric. In most quarters, Android had as much as 60% of the market share.

Internationally, Android is even more ubiquitous, with 82.7% market share in China and 73.3% across Europe in countries including the UK, France, Germany Spain and Italy.

Apple shipped 35.1 million units in the quarter, giving it a 23% market share and a year growth of nearly 89%. Together, Android and iOS continue to lead and very much control the smartphone market.

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Android and iOS are the top two OSes for tablets, with 67.3 percent and 27.6 percent share, respectively, of the 229.7 million units shipped in 2014.