元器件交易网讯  3月27日消息，据外媒报道，据研究公司Gartner表示，预计在2015年前，运行谷歌安卓软件的设备数量将超过运行其它操作系统的移动和PC设备。

　　随着更多的苹果iPhone、iPad和Mac上市，全球运行iOS和OS X的设备数量在增加。但是苹果的操作系统只适用于苹果设备——尽管苹果很大，但它只是一个制造商。安卓可以为任意的第三方制造商比如三星、摩托罗拉和LG等等。所以将会出现更多的安卓设备是情理之中的事，这就像80年代90年代的Window系统的PC。

　　上图“其它”类数据如此高，部分原因是该数据包括旧移动手机被称作“功能机”的软件或“垃圾手机”。Gartner称2012年，移动手机出货量17.5亿，只有6.8亿是智能机。而苹果手机仍然非常昂贵，低端手机制造商现在将安卓作为一个选择。

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　　外媒原文如下：

　　The number of devices that will be shipped with GoogleGOOG -1.56%’s Android software is expected to overtake all other mobile and PC operating systems by 2015, according todata from the research firm Gartner that was compiled by Statista.

　　The number of devices running iOS and OS X is increasing as AppleAAPL -0.43% ships more iPhones, iPads and Macs around the world. But Apple’s operating systems are exclusive to Apple devices — there’s just one manufacturer, albeit a big one. Android can be used by any third party like Samsung, MotorolaMSI -1.23% and LG, for example. So it makes sense that there are going to be more Android devices, much like the flood of Windows PCs in the 1980s and ’90s.

　　If you’re wondering how the columns for “other” could be so tall considering they exclude Google, Apple and MicrosoftMSFT -1.08%, it’s partly because the data include the software running older mobile phones known as “feature” phones, or less-affectionately “dumphones.” In 2012, for example, 1.75 billion mobile phones were shipped; of these only 680 million were smartphones, Gartner has said. Smartphone sales didn’t overtake feature-phone sales until 2013. While Apple phones are still pretty pricey, the lower-end phone makers now have Android as an option.