BlackBerry OS distribution – July 2012

Jul 28, 2012 by Inteist

 

BlackBerry is quickly loosing its market share. Besides that it is failing to innovate, which is actually mostly the reason it is loosing its once lion market share so fast to Android, iOS and even to Windows Phone 7. Let’s check out how the OS distribution changed since January 2012. Here’s the post about BlackBerry OS distribution in January 2012

And here’s the BlackBerry OS distribution in January 2012.

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***Note: This is not an official information or official numbers. These is a sample from one of the apps that run on BlackBerry and  have enough users so that it is statistically significant.

 

It is interesting to see that there is almost no change (well, no surprise here there were not many changes/upgrades in the realm of BlackBerry). It is interesting to see though that the 7.0 OS’s pie has slightly increased, surprisingly cutting the 5.0 OS’s pie. Or maybe actually it is not at all surprising. The 5.0 people have upgraded to 7.0 devices while 6.0 people did not bother (or could not) upgrade their OS to 7.0.

 

Here are the charts side by side:

July 2012	January 2012

 

Let me know in the comments what you think!

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BlackBerry OS distribution January 2012

Jan 19, 2012 by Inteist

Last year I’ve put some stats for BB OS distribution here: BlackBerry OS distribution March/April 2011

Beginning 2012 I was wondering what is the OS distribution now with the BB OS 7.0 devices in the wild and especially since I wanted to do updates only for the devices running BB OS 5.0 and up.

So the distribution looks like this:

Making devices that run OS below 5.0 to be about 5-6% of all the devices. Of course this data is based on the users who use this specific app, but I am almost positive that this is pretty close to the generalized numbers.

The numbers look like this:

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