The most popular Mobile Operating System available in the market are iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
Apple’s iOS is exclusively to Apple iPhones, iPods and iPads. But the trend is gradually changing now as the OS have seen implemented on AutoMobiles too. The total number of applications currently available to download from App Store are 1,225,046 (data according to PocketGamer).
From the time Google purchased Android, it’s booming since then. Almost every manufacturers in the whole world are using Android as the core Operating System. It’s worth mentioning that different OEM uses their own custom UI on top of Android to distinguish them from the crowd. At the current state, the total number of applications available to download from Google Play Store are 1,321,864 (data according to AppBrain).
Its been a while Microsoft developed its smartphone OS . Indeed it didn’t upgrade its OS in such a pace that it was left far behind from iOS and Android by the Developers. The recent update to WP 8.1 made alot of significant changes now it started competing for its existence. Windows Phone is also available to different OEMs although custom UI overlay isn’t in its blood. Its the same to every manufacturers. As it has now started growing its market share, developers are keen for developing applications. Recently, total number of applications on Windows Phone Store reach the milestone of 3,00,000 (data according to WpCentral).