(Canalys's market share statistics are based on shipments to retail channels, not sales to consumers).
Based on shipments, Android was used in 33% of smartphones, vaulting it ahead of Nokia's Symbian (31%), Apple's iOS (16%) and the BlackBerry platform (15%).
The Brent benchmark, based on shipments of North Sea oil, emerged in the 1980s partly as a way of skirting this problem.
Our results identified nine large (>50 counties) communities based on shipments of beef cattle in 2009 aggregated into an annual network and nine large communities based on shipments of dairy cattle.
Top Five Smartphone Markets and Market Share for 2011, 2012, and 2016 (based on shipments).
For its most recent quarter, Rambus reported $3.5 million in royalties based on shipments of Rambus parts by its licensees, an 83% growth over the comparable period last year.
IDC did both this time, saying that Samsung led Q3 with 21.8% market share based on shipments, while Apple ranked second in shipments, but topped vendors in terms of value.
Apple's lead in the tablet market took its first serious dent in Q3, according to estimates from analyst IDC, based on tablet shipments (rather than sales).
Xiaomi sold 61 million smartphones in 2014, and it ranks third in the world overall based on shipment numbers.
Pay should be based on merit, rather than on seniority.
