Virtually all smartphones sold in the last three months of 2016 were Android or iOS devices, The Verge reports. Windows Phone claimed 0.3 percent of the global market. BlackBerry, which sold just over 200,000 devices, has a market share of 0.0 percent, essentially a rounding error.
Remember, just three years ago, experts thought "Microsoft's mobile OS would overtake iOS for market share in 2017, while BlackBerry would still be hanging around as sizable (if small) player." Oops!
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