A report said that Google’s Android operating system is the leader of the pack for smartphone operating systems.
IDC said that it had a 39 percent share of shipments in the fourth quarter of 2013, amounting to 226.1 million units and giving it a 78.1 percent market share.
Signficantly behind was the Apple iOS, shipping 51 million units and holding a 17.6 percent share.
Next came Windows Phone, with volumes of 8.8 million units and a three percent market share. It showed the largest increase for the quarter with 46.7 percent growth in the quarter.
Blackberry held 0.6 percent of the market and saw a steep decline of 77 percent compared to the same quarter in 2012.
For the whole of 2013, the Android operating system shipped 793.6 million units out of an overall market of just over a billion units.
