In 2015: Android Rules, Symbian is Gone, iPhone is Flat, & Windows Phone is #2?

IDC Forecasts Worldwide Smartphone Market to Grow by Nearly 50% in 2011

Producing this sort of forecast is frought with danger. Five years (technically less than that) is a long time in the tech world. For example, there wasn’t any iOS (Apple) market five years ago. Today IDC is forecasting this then unknown platform will have 15.7% marketshare (3rd behind Android and Symbian). I placed IDC’s data in an column chart for easier interpretation.

Some of IDC’s forecasts are not surprising:

– Android will continue to dominate the mobile market with 45% of market share in 2015
– Symbian will disappear with a 0.2%