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85%

85% -- operating system market share for Android OS (2018)

Name: Operating System Market Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-29

2018 · allaboutwindowsphone.com

Android OS has approximately 85% market share in the smartphone OS market.

Approximate figure ('around 85%')
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Value

85%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2018

Entity

Android OS

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

61/100 confidence

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Source

allaboutwindowsphone.com Primary Tier C

https://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/22906_The_Windows_10_Mobile_landscap.php ↗

Confidence: 48/100 Vintage: 2018 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

The Windows 10 Mobile landscape, by device, looking back

Original Research

allaboutwindowsphone.com · Original study ↗

Methodology

Author-cited figure for global smartphone OS share; no original methodology stated

Methodology documented

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Industrymarketing

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Android OS: 85% operating system market share. Source: allaboutwindowsphone.com (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/android-os-market-share-2018

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