B
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50%
50% -- mobile os market share for Android (2010)
Android captured a 50% market share among recent smartphone/mobile OS acquirers according to a Nielsen report.
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Evidence graded
Value
50%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2010
Entity
Geography
Global
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Nielsen
Primary
Tier C
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Source Article
Trend
Original Research
Nielsen
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Methodology
Nielsen mobile market report, cited via blog
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 (current) | 50% | |
| 2015 | 48.51% | -3.0% |
| 2022 | 42.29% | -12.8% |
| 2024-11 | 71.42% | +68.9% |
| 2025 | 68% | -4.8% |
| 2025-09 | 75.18% | +10.6% |
| 2026 | 72.55% | -3.5% |
| Q2 2024 | 71.65% | -1.2% |
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Industrymarketing
RegionGlobal
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Android: 50% mobile os market share. Source: Nielsen (2010). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/android-50-percent-market-share
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/android-50-percent-market-share" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>50%</strong> -- mobile os market share for Android<br><small>Source: Nielsen (2010) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/android-50-percent-market-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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