A mobile operating system ("mobile OS") is the operating system that operates a Smartphone, tablet, PDA, or other digital mobile devices. Modern mobile operating systems combine the features of a personal computer operating system with touch screen, cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS mobile navigation, camera, video camera, speech recognition, voice recorder, music player, near field communication, personal digital assistant (PDA) and other features.
Over the last three years we have seen the emergence of other mobile devices including Tablets, and in-vehicle infotainment/entertainment ("IVI") products. Android and iOS is being used in the Tablet marketplace. The IVI market is developing with efforts to develop open source platforms.
This research evaluates the current Mobile OS marketplace and anticipated outlook over the next five years including impact on the growth of the wireless/mobile device marketplace. The research provides insights into the potential evolution of the mobile OS marketplace. The analyzes driving factors behind the evolution of the Mobile OS products including the improved User Interface (UI) of the new generation of smartphones, the introduction of new high speed mobile networks, and the emergence of usage based data pricing with handset subsidies.
The report examines the latest Mobile OS innovations that could impact the marketplace. It also evaluates the business models being offered by the main mobile OS standards. It provides examples of mobile network operator pricing and examines the strategy being employed by the MNOs to ensure that they maintain relevancy in terms of content services over the smart phone device in response to the rise of the smartphone brand.
The report also provides a global subscriber statistics and forecast for the mobile OS to the end of 2018, with a similar forecast and market share projection for all of the major mobile OS standard providers (including RIM (BlackBerry), Microsoft Windows Mobile and Nokia Symbian) as well as Android and Apple over the 5 year period.
The report also includes forecast for the following:
Global Mobile Application Revenue by App Store 2013 - 2018
Amazon App Store
Apple App Store
Bada App Store
BlackBerry App World
FireFox OS
Google Play
Kindle App Store
Nokia App Store
Nook App Store
Tizen
WebOS App Store
Windows Store
Others
Global Mobile Application Revenue by Business Model 2013 - 2018
Virtual Goods
Advertising Revenue
Subscription Revenue
Download Revenue
Target Audience:
Mobile OS providers
Mobile network operators
Mobile application developers
Wireless device manufacturers
Mobile application store providers
Telecom managed services providers
Companies Mentioned in the Report:
Mobile Operators
BouyguesTelecom
China Mobile Communications Corp.
China Telecommunications Corp.
China United Network Communications
KDDI Corp.
NTT DoCoMo
Softbank Mobile Corp.
Sprint
T-Mobile
Telecom Italia
Telefonica
Telus
Vodafone
Handset Manufacturers
Acer
Alcatel Mobile Phones
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
CCI
Dell
FIH
Garmin International, Inc.
HaierTelecom Co., Ltd.
HTC
Huawei
Kyocera
Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology
LG
Motorola
NEC
Samsung
Sharp
Sony Ericsson
Toshiba
ZTE
Semiconductor Companies
AKM Semiconductor, Inc.
Audience
ARM
Atheros Communications
Broadcom
CSR Plc.
Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Freescale Semiconductor
Gemalto
Intel
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
MediaTek, Inc.
MIPS Technologies, Inc.
NVIDIA Corp.
Qualcomm
Renesas Electronics Corp.
ST-Ericsson
Synaptics, Inc.
Texas Instruments
Via Telecom
Software Companies
ACCESS Co., Ltd.
Ascender Corp.
Cooliris, Inc.
eBay
Google
Living Image Ltd.
Myriad
MOTOYA Co., Ltd.
Nuance Communications, Inc.
NXP Software
OMRON Software Co., Ltd.
PacketVideo (PV)
SkyPop
SONiVOX
SVOX
VisualOn, Inc.
Commercialization Companies
AplixCorp
Borqs
L&T Infotech
Noser Engineering, Inc.
Sasken Communication Technologies, Ltd.
SQL Star International, Inc.
TAT
Teleca
Wind River
Wipro
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