By: iPadfanzz staff on January 4, 2013
The iOS and Android operating systems completely dominate the US smartphone market with the two of them jointly occupying almost 90 per cent of the U.S. smartphone marketshare.
As of November, a report by comScore said Apple and Android devices accounted for a combined 88.7% share of the U.S. smartphone market. On individual terms, the Google-owned Android holds 53.7% of the market, up 1.1% from August, while Apple accounted for 35%, which was a 1.4% increase from August.
Other players like Research In Motion and Microsoft, accounted for 7.3% and 3% of the market, respectively.
Also, Samsung was the leading manufacturer of mobile phones, with 26.9% of the market -- up 1.2% from August. Apple came at the second spot with 18.5 per cent of the market, up 1.4 per cent. It also said that Apple’s popularity is increasing at a better rate than Samsung’s over the three month span of August to November. Apple also surpassed LG as the second most popular mobile OEM according to comScore, while Motorola and HTC also lost marketshare.
The research firm also said the number of U.S. smartphone owners rose by 7 million and is now at 123.3 million, which is 53 per cent of all phone subscribers.
The most surprising news was Microsoft’s share of the smartphone subscriber market dropping by 0.6 per cent in November while RIM has continued its downward spiral as well.
