B
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20%
20% -- mobile os market share for iOS (2018)
iOS holds a 20% market share in the mobile OS market.
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Value
20%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2018
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
dignited.com
Primary
Tier C
https://www.dignited.com/36923/what-is-kaios-and-why-is-it-becoming-the-3rd-major-mobile-os/ ↗
Source Article
With just how ubiquitous Android has become, it is hard to imagine that there is room for any other platform out there. Of course there is iOS which now stands at a rather impressive 20% market share. So other than these two, is there anything else out there really? I mean, this is a very unforgivin…
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dignited.com
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Secondary citation of mobile OS market share; original source not named
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Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 (current) | 20% | |
| 2021-02 | 27.33% | +36.6% |
| 2023 | 26.5% | -3.0% |
| 2025 | 27% | +1.9% |
| 2025-09 | 24.59% | -8.9% |
| 2026 | 32% | +30.1% |
| 2026 | 27.04% | -15.5% |
| December 2013 | 41.8% | +54.6% |
| Q1 2025 | 27.65% | -33.9% |
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iOS: 20% mobile os market share. Source: dignited.com (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ios-mobile-os-market-share
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