iPhone Grows More Than Android Devices In the US
The study surveyed more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers and found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 25.7 percent market share. Google Android continued to grow its share in the U.S. smartphone market, accounting for 50.9 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Apple captured 31.9 percent.
According to ComScore, iPhone has outgrown Android in the smartphone market, in the last three months, 1.7% to 0.8% growth. It should be emphasised that this is no indication of the death of Android, or anything like that. At some point, Android had to reach a level of saturation. After all, Android and iPhone already take up over 80% of the space. In effect, there is only about 17% left to fight over.
In the wider scheme of the market, the story remains the same as before; iOS and Android grow whilst everyone else falters and collapses, namely BBOS and Symbian. Windows Phone remained at about the same level as the previous quarter, which I suppose is slightly encouraging.
Most importantly, this data continues to counter the endless bearish analysts who predict the imminent death of the iPhone. This data reinforces the need for carriers to have the iPhone in their arsenal. There is a reason Sprint committed $20 billion to iPhone. Carriers need the iPhone, as customers want the iPhone.