Mobile adoption trends change, just like the seasons in a year. Spring of 2019 brings a new change in these trends. In this newsletter, we bring to you the latest figures of market usage of smartphones, tablets, vendors, and operating systems. We have compared their trends of usage being followed in the US market versus rest of the world. Mobile testing engineering teams will find this comparison statistics helpful in devising the device-testing matrix for planning the release of their products across the globe.
MobiCast - Spring 2019
Platform Market Share, Global vs US
Operating Systems Market Share, Global vs US
Android Market Share, Global vs US
iOS Market Share, Global vs US
iOS Market Share, iPhone vs iPad
Mobile Vendors Market Share, Global vs US
Tablet Vendors Market Share, Global vs US
News Flash
Open-source Mobile Automation Tools release updates:
- Appium released a new version 1.12.1
Download link | Release notes
Mobile OS release updates are:
- Apple released a new iOS version 12.2 beta 5
(build 16E5223a)
Download link | Release notes* iOS version 12.2 links are accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a new version Android Q Beta
(API Level Q)
Download link
Mobile OS SDK release updates are:
- Apple released a new Xcode version 10.2 beta 4 (build 10P107d)
Download link | Release notes* iOS version 10.2 links are accessible using an Apple Developer account only - Google released a new Android Studio
version 3.3.2
Download link | Release notes

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