A recent study by research firm Canalys has revealed that 48 percent of the world’s smartphones are running Google’s Android operating system, followed by Apple’s iOS with 19 percent. This big gap between both platforms is primarily because Android is available on much more products from many of the major smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and Motorola, while iOS is ony available on Apple’s iPhone.

Android apparently dominates in the Asia-Pacific market, such as in South Korea where 85% of the country’s smartphones run Android, and Taiwan with 71 percent. Canalys tracked a total of 56 countries for this study and 35 of them was dominated by Android.

Way to go, Android! Check out the full report on this study.