The number one OS in mobile? Symbian

Unloved and overlooked but still the tops by pages browsed.
For years Symbian ruled the smartphone space, even though with hindsight its devices were clumsy and ill-suited to email, browsing, app downloads and so on.
The arrival of iOS and Android revealed just how inadequate Symbian was and convinced Nokia – its de-facto owner even though the OS is open source – to abandon the platform for its top end devices in favour of WinPho.
And yet, according to data from StatCounter unscrambled by The Royal Pingdom, Symbian finished 2011 over 11 percentage points ahead of iOS.
It went from 30.25 per cent in January to 33.59 per cent in December in terms of its share of web pages browsed.
By comparison Apple had 22.56 per cent in December, Android had 21.74 per cent and BlackBerry 7.86 per cent (half of its share in January).

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