IDC: Windows Phone falls to 0.1% market share, Android up to 85% in Q1 this year

It's officially a two-horse race - IDC puts Windows Phone shipments for the first quarter of 2017 at a meager 0.1%. This matches the 0.1% share of the "Others" category (most competing OSes are now discontinued, even Tizen's fate seems uncertain). Android is the ruling OS with a solid 85% market share (it seems to hover around that point). This left the other 15% to iOS, but there's a cycle - Q3 is a weak quarter, then the next-gen iPhones land in Q4 and iOS jumps several points. Period Android iOS Windows Phone Others 2016Q1 83.4% ...