Mobile OS market share reports have trended in showing the massive growth and now market leadership that the Android phone has amassed and now to add to these, Nielsen has released an updated snapshot of the manufacturer OS share, by smart phone, through use of a neat visual.  The table (see below) shows Androids dominance and proves that their open all players approach to the operating system model, has allowed them to scale through a many to many relationship, versus Apple or even RIM’s single OEM approach.

The fact that Microsoft is applying the same operandi to mobile, as Google’s open Android vision, sparks the possibility that we may see some exciting mobile wars in months to come.  More surprisingly, we estimate that Microsoft will gain additional share that once belonged to RIM- given the similarity in the user demographic, finally making Microsoft a formidable competitor when looking at next step technology.  We state our surprise in Microsoft’s possible competitive nature, as they stepped on to the mobile scene (April 2000) before Google, but have only now made an impact on the mobile space, with their release of Windows 7 mobile.