2013 was a good year for the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, those from Cupertino having much better sales than in the same period of 2012 and overall it seems that iOS had a higher growth this year than Android or Windows Phone. Conformable a study which analyzed 89% of global internet traffic, in 2013 the market share of iOS increased from 14% to 19%, so we are talking about a 5% increase in just 9 months and the year has two more months before the end.
Apple iOS is the fastest growing mobile operating system in 2013, with iPhone users growing from 14 percent of worldwide market share in the first quarter of 2013 to 19 percent in Q3, according to GlobalWebIndex. The research, based on 89 percent of the global Internet population, found the number of iPhone users is expected to grow to 233 million this year, with iPads users estimated at 165.72 million.
Based on this increase, it is estimated that by the end of the year there will be almost 400 million active iDevices, 233 of them being iPhones, 165.72 million being iPad tablets. Even if Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has almost 20% of the global mobile terminal market, Android is still king with a market share of 57%, with over 708 million active terminals worldwide. It is estimated that in 2014 we will have 1 billion active Android terminals worldwide, and in the case of iDevices, we are talking about exceeding half a billion.
