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Android gains U.S. market share as others slide
Ryan Hamrick
RIM still holds the crown for now, but Android is the only smartphone platform making progress lately.
Android has quickly become one of the most popular mobile operating systems in the world
Published on Sep 16, 2010
comScore is at it again. While we have trouble buying-in to the firm's data 100%, this latest report sheds some light on an important set of statistics regarding the U.S. market share battle going on amongst smartphone platforms.
According to a comScore report for Mobile Subscriber Market Share in the three-month period ending in July 2010 -- we're not sure if they're trying to say 2nd quarter here or what -- the Android platform made a five point increase to 17% over the 12% share it maintained in the same period ending back in April.
It's really no surprise to us that Android has grown this much over the summer. If you've so much as walked into a wireless carrier's retail store this year, one thing is apparent -- Google means business with Android.
What does surprise us is the performance of Google's competitors. In fact, no other company's platform gained any market share, whatsoever.
The almighty BlackBerry platform still holds a commanding lead over all the rest in the U.S. with a 39.3% share, but that figure is down 1.8% from three months ago.
Even Apple, with the launch of the iPhone 4 in June, slipped 1.3% to a 23.8% market share.
We suppose that's the difference between launching one new phone per year, and launching a new phone (somewhere) nearly every day.
