RIM Dominates U.S. Smartphone Market While Google Gains Ground Fast
Bertrand Vasquez | Mar 10, 2010 | Comments 0
The U.S. smartphone market share figures are in! And it looks like Android is doing much better than its competition in terms market share gain. According to mobile market share data by comScore, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry OS dominated the U.S. smartphone market with a whopping 43.0% share. Usage of the platform went up by 1.7% from 41.3% in a 3-month period between November 2009 and January 2010. Android usage increased by 4.3% from 2.8% to 7.1% in the same period of time, making it the highest gain out of the top five smartphone platforms.
The iPhone, on the other hand, didn’t see much of a difference. The platform usage gained only 0.3% of the market share from 24.8% to 25.1%. Enough to keep it in second place behind BlackBerry. There’s no really doubt in our minds now as to why Apple is going after the Android platform in the latest lawsuit filed against HTC.
As far as Windows Mobile and Palm webOS go, both platforms took a plunge in the same 3-month period. Palm webOS market share decrease by 2.1% from 7.8% to 5.7%. Windows Mobile usage plummeted by 4.0% from 19.7% to 15.7%, making it the highest loss compared to the other platforms. Though Windows Mobile still retains third place.
comScore reports that 42.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones powered by any of the aforementioned mobile platforms in the same November-January period. That’s an 18% increase when compared to the August-October period.
[ via TechCrunch ]
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