Growing Windows Phone, BlackBerry Freefall
BlackBerry back on the other bad news, this time coming from the market research firm ABI Research.
Report on the first quarter of 2014 the institution mentioned that the number of global shipping 10 BlackBerry device in the first three months of this year decreased by 14 percent compared to the previous quarter.
As reported by Phone Arena, the BlackBerry market share 10 not entered in the scale percentage of ABI Research, aka not to 1 percent.
A similar fate experienced by the BlackBerry platform OS (OS7) contains the old devices, according to ABI Research, decreased by 79 percent from the last quarter.
When compared to the same quarter in 2013, degradation of two platforms that BlackBerry look more obvious.
Shipment figures for year-on-year 10 BlackBerry down 44 percent from 981.300 units to be 550,000 units, while the BlackBerry OS freefall by 86 percent from 5.426.500 units to 750,000 units, still according to ABI Research.
Instead, three other platforms recorded shipments to rise. The largest growth experienced Windows Phone with a 119 percent increase compared to the same quarter last year, while Android and iOS are each recorded a growth of 24 percent and 17 percent.
ABI Research also took note of a number of basic shipment (featured) phone that still reached 127 million units in the first quarter of 2014. However, that number has declined by 44 percent compared to the first quarter of 2013.





