Statistical Analysis of Mobile Platforms Utilization in Europe

Abstract

Selling numbers of smart phones and their supplements are rapidly growing worldwide. In Europe More and more people use ”smart devices” primarily smartphones and tablets in everyday life. For this reason, there is a dynamic expansion of mobile operating systems and therefore expanding their services. The first part of the paper deals with percentage representation of individual operating systems for mobile devices in the European Union. This paper present unique analysis of mobile platforms (Android, iOS, SymbianOS, Windows phone, Series 40) utilization in different states in Europe. The Android system, which has a dominant position in the whole EU, also has a dominant position in all EU countries except the UK, and by the standard deviations it is noticeable that it has relatively small variations across the EU. The aim of paper is peer analysis used Mobil platform in European states. Peer analysis will base on the principal component analysis and correlation. Results of principal component analysis shows that the states of the for mer Eastern Bloc have a tendency to fragment the market coverage to smaller mobile platforms, unlike the founding members of the EU (Western Europe countries), which usually have one, maximum two dominant mobile platform, namely Android and iOS. From illustrated boxplots it is easy to see differences between Western and Eastern Europe countries, is the comparison of the EU countries.