Sam Oliver
The latest figures from comScore show that Apple gained 0.7 points in the three-month span concluding in August. Apple's iOS and Google Android were the only two platforms in the top five that saw their share increase.
Google continues to extend its lead over rivals, bolstered by Android's availability on a number of major manufacturers with a variety of form factors. Android saw a 5.6 point increase from the May period, bringing its total domestic share up to 43.7 percent in August.
The gains of Google and Apple came mostly at the expense of Research in Motion, which saw its share slide by 5 points from May to August. RIM's BlackBerry line now represents 19.7 percent of smartphones in the U.S., good for third place.
Microsoft continues to struggle to gain traction with its Windows Phone platform, as its share dropped by 0.1 percent in the latest survey . Its share of 5.7 percent was good for fourth place, ahead of Nokia's Symbian, which slipped 0.3 points to 1.8 percent total.
ComScore's figures show Apple on the verge of cracking 10 percent of all mobile subscribers in the U.S., when traditional cell phones are included. Apple's 1.1 point gain in August brought it to 9.8 percent of all mobile subscribers in America.
Apple's total share of mobile subscribers is behind Motorola (14 percent), LG (21 percent) and Samsung (25.3 percent). But among those, only Samsung saw growth from the May period to August, rising by 0.5 points.
comScore's numbers are based on a survey of more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers. The study found that 234 million Americans age 13 and older use mobile devices, and 84.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in August, up 10 percent from the May survey.
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Apple's iPhone continues to gain market share in the U.S., now representing 27.3 percent of handsets,
Google continues to extend its lead over rivals, bolstered by Android's availability on a number of major manufacturers with a variety of form factors. Android saw a 5.6 point increase from the May period, bringing its total domestic share up to 43.7 percent in August.
Just wait until the iPhone 5! Then we is gonna get em back! Yeah baby!
1) One-in-ten cellphones are iPhones, despite an ARP of $650. That's pretty crazy.
2) One-in-four smartphones are iPhones. Do any other smartphone vendors sell as many of a single product in the US?
I got the same report form Comscore...
Here's my take:
1. Apple gained market share at the expense of RIM and a little bit of Microsoft- Android, though slow, still holds the top spot. But take that with a grain of salt, Microsoft hasn't released the Windows 8 OS for mobile yet... I'm not saying it'll shift everything, but critics seems pretty please at the initial release teasers.
2. Samsung, not Apple has a larger share of the Mobile Phone market - and given the lackluster iPhone 4S response and the upcoming Nexus Prime a couple days before the i4S... well it's gonna get interesting.
I got the same report form Comscore...
Here's my take:
1. Apple gained market share at the expense of RIM and a little bit of Microsoft- Android, though slow, still holds the top spot. But take that with a grain of salt, Microsoft hasn't released the Windows 8 OS for mobile yet... I'm not saying it'll shift everything, but critics seems pretty please at the initial release teasers.
2. Samsung, not Apple has a larger share of the Mobile Phone market - and given the lackluster iPhone 4S response and the upcoming Nexus Prime a couple days before the i4S... well it's gonna get interesting.
So, how much money is Samsung making from this? Not being sarcastic or argumentative, I'd like to know.
I got the same report form Comscore...
Here's my take:
1. Apple gained market share at the expense of RIM and a little bit of Microsoft- Android, though slow, still holds the top spot. But take that with a grain of salt, Microsoft hasn't released the Windows 8 OS for mobile yet... I'm not saying it'll shift everything, but critics seems pretty please at the initial release teasers.
2. Samsung, not Apple has a larger share of the Mobile Phone market - and given the lackluster iPhone 4S response and the upcoming Nexus Prime a couple days before the i4S... well it's gonna get interesting.
Samsung sells a wide array of phones, from smartphones to crappy cheap, free even without contract, dumbphones. The iPhone 4 is the best selling model of phone. Unless too many people listen to the spec-obsessed Android fans (no, not all Android fans, just the vocal Apple-hating ones), the iPhone 4S is likely to become the new best selling phone. LTE just isn't widespread enough yet to matter, if any normal person knows what LTE is anyway.
The 4S will be as popular as the 4 for the same reasons, plus it'll have the best camera on the market, and Siri.