{"id":516593,"date":"2010-04-05T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-04-05:article\/419-androids-u.s.-marketshare-takes-only-three-months-to-more-than-double"},"modified":"2010-04-05T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T19:20:19","slug":"androids-u-s-marketshare-more-than-doubles-in-just-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516593","title":{"rendered":"Android’s U.S. Marketshare More Than Doubles In Just Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG<\/a>) Android’s U.S. smartphone market share jumped by an impressive 5.2 points in the three months ended in February to 9 percent. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone share remained relatively flat, comScore finds<\/a>. <\/p>\n

If those trends continue (and, that’s a big ‘if’<\/em>), Google could catch-up to the iPhone by the end of the year. Still, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion remains the pack leader with a dominating 42.1 percent share of the smartphone market.\n<\/p>\n

The big differentiator that Google has going for it is the number of handset makers that are pumping out Android phones. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR<\/a>) said the top handset makers in the U.S. are Motorola (NYSE: MOT<\/a>) (22.3 percent); LG (SEO: 066570) (21.7 percent); Samsung (21.4 percent); Nokia (NYSE: NOK<\/a>) (8.7 percent) and RIM (NSDQ: RIMM<\/a>) (8.2 percent). <\/p>\n

Of those, the top three are all making handsets based on Android. It’s important to note that these figures are based on current ownership, and not sales, so likely there’s still a ton of Motorola Razrs out there skewing the figures. <\/p>\n

Also interestingly, Android and RIM were the only two handset makers to grow in the past three months. RIM grew by 1.3, and Android grew by 5.2 percent. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT<\/a>) dropped the most, losing 4 percentage points and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL<\/a>) lost 0.1 percent. <\/p>\n

Here’s the chart:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. RIM: 42.1 percent, up 1.3 percent
\n2. Apple: 25.4 percent, down 0.1 percent
\n3. Microsoft: 15.1 percent, down 4 percent
\n4. Google: 9 percent, up 5.2 percent
\n5. Palm (NSDQ: PALM<\/a>) 5.4 percent, down 1.8 percent\n<\/p>\n

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android’s U.S. smartphone market share jumped by an impressive 5.2 points in the three months ended in February to 9 percent. Meanwhile, Apple’s iPhone share remained relatively flat, comScore finds. If those trends continue (and, that’s a big ‘if’), Google could catch-up to the iPhone by the end of the year. Still, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}