(CNET) -- Symbian and Android will dominate the mobile operating system market by 2014, research firm Gartner said Friday. Gartner expects that Symbian and Android together will account for 59.8 percent of the total worldwide mobile OS market by 2014, split almost equally -- Symbian with 30.2 percent, and Android with 29.6 percent. Android is already closing the gap with the market leader. By the end of 2010, Gartner says, Google's Android will sneak into second place behind Nokia-backed Symbian with 17.7 percent market share, compared to Symbian's 40.1 percent. At the end of 2009, Android OS had just 3.9 percent market share, the research firm reported.
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Symbian and Android will dominate mobile operating system market by 2014, research firm says
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Gartner expects two together will account for 59.8 percent of the total mobile OS market
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Its predictions don't bode well for RIM's BlackBerry OS and Apple's iOS
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