Android (operating system) top-selling platform in April 2011, overtaking BlackBerry OS with a 31.2% smartphone share, according to "comScore". By the third quarter of 2011, Gartner estimated that more than half (52.5%) of the smartphone sales belonged to Android. By the third quarter of 2012 Android had a 75% share of the global smartphone market according to the research firm IDC. In July 2011, Google said that 550,000 Android devices were being activated every day, up from 400,000 per day in May, and more than 100 million devices had been activated<ref name="i/o 2011 stats"></ref> with 4.4% growth per week. In September 2012, 500
Network operating system Network operating system The term network operating system is used to refer to two rather different concepts: Network operating systems can be embedded in a router or hardware firewall that operates the functions in the network layer (layer 3)."" Early microcomputer operating systems such as CP/M, DOS and classic Mac OS were designed for one user on one computer. As local area network technology became available, two general approaches to handle sharing arose. In a peer-to-peer network operating system users are allowed to share resources and files located on their computers and access shared resources from others. This system is