Mikey Campbell
According to a fresh report from comScore, Apple has shown positive growth in the important U.S. smartphone market for the first months of 2013, boosting hardware shipments to outpace rival Samsung and eating up mobile OS share to the detriment of Google's Android.
The market analytics firm reported the most recent from its MobiLens service on Thursday, showing Apple gained 3.9 percent in both smartphone hardware and operating system market share during the three-month period ending in February. From November 2012 to February 2013, Apple's share of the handset market went from 35 percent to 38.9, while iOS made the same change.
Major rival Samsung also saw gains, but only managed 1 percent growth, a little over one fourth of Apple's performance. The Korean electronics giant's share rose to 21.3 percent of the U.S. market, up from 20.3 percent in November.
Apple and Samsung were the only top 5 handset makers to exhibit growth during the three-month period, with HTC, Motorola and LG losing respective market shares of 1.7 percent, 1.1 percent and 0.2 percent.
As for the mobile OS space, Google still leads the sector with a 51.7 percent stake, but suffered another monthly decline, this time dropping 2 percent. Apple came in second with a 38.9 percent share of all U.S. smartphone subscribers, while BlackBerry, Microsoft and Symbian rounded out the top 5.
In its analysis, comScore surveyed over 30,000 mobile subscribers in the U.S., and notes smartphone penetration has grown 8 percent since November, with 133.7 million handsets in service as of February.
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WS spin: Apple barely hold lead Fandroids spin: they must have surveyed the same fanboys multiple times. Of course all surveys are only as reliable as their methodology.
No, this is a pretty clear indicator that the beleaguered Apple cannot possibly maintain its market position. Just look at all the iPhone-killers that came out this week alone.
Seriously, I'm tired of this BS.
Apple makes a lot of money, android is great on its own away. Is the iPhone and iPad the absolutely best? Of course. Does Apple make a lot of money? Of course. Does Android have more Market Share? Yes.
So what?
It's such a great time we are having. Remember the Nokia years on phones and MS on PCs? We won't have that again. How much money must Apple do for people to be happy? How many activations for Android?
Apple is just to big and powerful to go away. Same for the Android industry, they have 0 alternatives.
I would love if AI stopped the digitimes rumours, the analysts BS, this sort of bait, and become a little more technically oriented.
Doesn't seem that Google's $12 billion investment in Motorola was a good idea.
Seriously, I'm tired of this BS.
Apple makes a lot of money, android is great on its own away. Is the iPhone and iPad the absolutely best? Of course. Does Apple make a lot of money? Of course. Does Android have more Market Share? Yes.
So what?
It's such a great time we are having. Remember the Nokia years on phones and MS on PCs? We won't have that again. How much money must Apple do for people to be happy? How many activations for Android?
Apple is just to big and powerful to go away. Same for the Android industry, they have 0 alternatives.
I would love if AI stopped the digitimes rumours, the analysts BS, this sort of bait, and become a little more technically oriented.
Wouldn't that be great? Someone told me that this site used to be much better: rumours and stories culled through insight and research, rather than just lifting content (almost word for word) from other sites in an embarrassingly transparent effort to cultivate hits through troll-whoring.
Very sad.
In recent months they've managed to sink lower than MacRumours, and that must've taken some doing.