Windows Phone will become more popular iOS by 2016 – IDC

And once again analysts International Data Corporation (IDC) forecast decline of the operating system iOS. Experts said the research agency that the share of smart phones on the mobile platform Windows Phone exceeded that of Apple product by 2016.

 

According to analysts, by the end 2012 total sales of smartphones will rise by nearly 39% - up to 686 million units. The leading platform in the smartphone market with a share of Android will be at 61%, which reaches the peak of its popularity. Its development will largely be explained by steady sales of Samsung.

The second delivery later this year will be iOS with a share of 20.5%. Although the market share of the platform will fall, experts predict strong growth in the number of iPhone sold until 2016. Running BlackBerry OS on the results of this year will run 6% of smartphones sold, and the combined share of Windows Phone and Windows 7 will be 5.2%.

By 2016, predicts IDC, Android will retain its leading position, but its share will decrease to 53%. At the same time, the mobile platform from Microsoft will rise to second place in popularity and will take a 19.2% market share, which will contribute to the stable position of Nokia in developing countries. Share iOS amount to only 19% of the time, analysts say.

«Android retain leadership in the forecast period, while some competitors are trying to expand partnerships with operators (Apple), and others are in transit period (BlackBerry and Windows Phone)», - said IDC Senior Ramon Llamas.

The growth of smartphone sales in 2012 largely due to operator subsidies for the purchase of expensive devices, reducing the average retail price and cost of components, as well as attractive contracts for communications services, according to IDC. In 2016, predicts IDC, mobile phones will make delivery of 2.3 billion units.

Specifications promulgated the Mac, of displayed at WWDC

All indications are that the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC 2012 will be updated almost every product in a line of computers Apple. In addition to the announcement of the operating systems iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion is expected to update MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac and even the Mac Pro.

 

The most likely hypothesis seems that the new line of computer processors will be Intel Ivy Bridge. Technically, some models could get those chips back in April, when Intel began shipping a new generation of processors. However, this did not happen, and now, it seems, for such improvement is the time.

Anyway, less than a week, so all the passions run high, but Apple, as always, did not confirm nor refute. Pour oil on the fire journalists from 9to5Mac. He is said to have managed to get a photo of cars on the updated specification of the operating system, OS X. While the reliability of these data is not confirmed, but the contents of the document is well within what we have heard in recent weeks.

 

In addition to the release of the updated Mac Pro in three versions (entry-level server and high-end), the document suggests the emergence of new players, iPod shuffle and a set of new accessories. Insider confirms the assumption about the release of new MacBook Pro. If the 13-inch models of these devices do not promise anything unusual, the 15-inch - is another matter.

At least one version of the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will have a four-core Core i7 processor with a frequency of 2.6 GHz and cache in the third level of 8 MB. By default, the machine will be equipped with 16 GB of memory standard, DDR3 1600 MHz, hard disk drive with 750 GB and a dual-card (integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000, and discrete AMD Radeon HD 7770M with 2 GB of memory).

 

But the most interesting, the computer will finally lose the optical drive and will display Extra-Retina. As a standard size of 15.4 inches, its resolution is 2560x1600 pixels. Of the other "little things": port USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, Firewire 800, weight 2.14 kg.

If Apple at WWDC does provide updates for all of its computers, it will be one of the largest simultaneous updates of product lines in the history of the company.