A huge market...

As of today, our world’s population stands at about 8.25 billion people — and astonishingly there are over 7.4 billion mobile phones and smartphones in active use worldwide, nearly as many devices as people on the planet!
To put that in perspective: back in 2000, there were only about 750 million active mobile subscribers — meaning the number of mobile users has soared by more than 900 % in just over two decades. That’s one of the fastest adoption curves of any major technology in history.

Smartphones specifically have become the dominant form of mobile device. In 2014, annual shipments of new tablets and smartphones crossed 1.25 billion units, overtaking global PC sales for the first time — a milestone that fundamentally reshaped how people connect to the digital world.

Smartphone share of total mobile devices has exploded: from under 1 % of mobile handsets shipped in 2002, to around 5 % by 2007, to over **20 % by 2013, and today smartphones account for the vast majority of airtime and data usage globally.

How the Mobile OS Landscape Transformed

In the early smartphone era, Symbian (primarily on Nokia devices) dominated the high-end segment — controlling around 60 % market share in the early 2000s. But at its peak in the late 2000s, its grip quickly fell, and today Symbian’s presence is virtually nonexistent. Other early players like Palm OS have also disappeared from the mainstream.

By contrast, Android, a Linux-kernel–based OS originally developed around 2003 and later acquired by Google, has grown to become the clear global leader. In 2025, Android commanded around 72–73 % of the worldwide smartphone OS market, with roughly 3.9 billion active Android devices in use. Apple’s iOS follows with about 27 % of the market — a striking duopoly compared to the fragmented early-era ecosystem.

Whereas Microsoft once tried to gain traction with Pocket PC smartphone editions and later mobile OS versions (even briefly buoyed by a Nokia partnership), Windows Mobile and Windows Phone are now essentially gone, holding well under 1 % share** of the mobile OS market in today’s landscape.

And while transfer between PC and Handheld still matters, it's the Internet which has taken over as gateway for data-exchange. Today "click-and-transfer" has become the standard for all OS - but for malware unfortunately as well!

... with TABLET & SMARTPHONE and more...

In short - we are talking about a market with over 7 billion internet users
and more than half a trillion USD in direct and indirect revenues!