Android Market Share Declines 1.3%, iOS Increases 3.5% [Chart]

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Posted March 6, 2013 at 8:37pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer for the three month period ending January 2013. Android ranked as the top smartphone platform but declined slightly from October 2012, reports ComScore.

Smartphone OEM Market Share
129.4 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (55 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in January, up 7 percent since October. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 37.8 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 3.5 percentage points from October). Samsung ranked second with 21.4 percent market share (up 1.9 percentage points), followed by HTC with 9.7 percent share, Motorola with 8.6 percent and LG with 7 percent (up 0.3 percentage points).

Android Market Share Declines 1.3%, iOS Increases 3.5% [Chart]

Smartphone Platform Market Share
Google Android ranked as the top smartphone platform with 52.3 percent market share, while Apple’s share increased 3.5 percentage points to 37.8 percent. BlackBerry ranked third with 5.9 percent share, followed by Microsoft (3.1 percent) and Symbian (0.5 percent).

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budsal - March 7, 2013 at 6:09pm

You are talking to the original poster but responding to my post. You are the confused one. I guess my initial response was entered after yours.

budsal - March 6, 2013 at 9:26pm

What I find "interesting", so to speak, is that Apple has a total 6 different smartphones and holds 37.8% whereas Android is on how many dozens or hundreds of different model phones and is only 14.5% more of the market.

Jailbreak effect ? - March 6, 2013 at 9:15pm

Jailbreak effect ? Maybe !!

Dipak - March 6, 2013 at 11:57pm

Fight

appoop - March 6, 2013 at 9:10pm

LMAO android is still 14% nigher and appoop