STRONG COMPETITION BETWEEN ANDROID & IOS

Google's mobile operating system may be fragmented, but Android as a whole stills eats up the smartphone pie chart with 79 percent market share in the second quarter of 2013.
"Android continues to dominate with nearly 80 percent market share," wrote market research firm Gartner in a press release today.
Previously, Google-powered smartphones accounted for 64.2 percent of sales in the same quarter last year, according to Gartner.
This 14.8 percent jump further distances Android from the iOS platform among smartphones. Apple's share decreased from 18.8 percent to 14.2 percent worldwide in the second quarter year-over-year.


Among hardware manufacturers, Samsung was in line with its software partner, Google, trumping Apple with a healthy 31.7 percent of sales. The Galaxy S4 launch was no small part of that success.
Apple's hardware numbers remained the same as its software, as the company's phones and iOS platform are tied together