In the third quarter of 2015 353 million smartphones were sold worldwide, 15.5% more than in the same period last year. If they are classified according to the operating system, the market is largely dominated Android, used by 84.7% of devices sold , according to Gartner Inc.
Secondly, quite far, iOS, exclusive to Apple phone is located, with 13.1 percent. Windows then appears, with 1.7%, and smaller the remaining 0.6% are shared.
In 2005 the board of Google warned its shareholders on the need for progress in communication devices Extra PC for not staying out of the market. That same year bought Android.
Towards 2014 and was largely dominated, with more than billion users . But he had a problem: the high-income massively favored iPhone. Then he signed an agreement, which only now became public. It paid him billion dollars to Apple to keep its search bar in its smartphones
Why a payment as important? The reason is that marketers will pay Google every time someone opens an advertising close to a search result. According to Goldman Sachs estimates, 75% of company revenue through this area come from Apple devices. The figure in 2014 touched 9 billion .
The data was known under the judgment of Oracle, Java system developer against Google. Annette Hurst, a lawyer for the company, revealed the details of the agreement between Google and Apple in a hearing at a court in San Francisco.
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