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20.5%

20.5% -- operating system market share for iPhone (iOS) (2012)

Name: Operating System Market Share Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-27

2012 · winsupersite.com

IDC expects iPhone to hold 20.5 percent market share in 2012.

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Value

20.5%

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Percentage

Data Vintage

2012

Entity

iPhone (iOS)

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winsupersite.com Primary Tier A

http://winsupersite.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/idc-expects-windows-phone-surpass-iphone-2016… ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2012 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

IDC Still Expects Windows Phone to Surpass iPhone by 2016

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winsupersite.com · Original study ↗

Methodology

IDC forecast of iPhone smartphone OS market share in 2012

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Trend Over Time

Period	Value	Change
2012 (current)	20.5%
2016	19%	-7.3%

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Industrymarketing

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iPhone (iOS): 20.5% operating system market share. Source: winsupersite.com (2012). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/iphone-market-share-2012-forecast

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