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Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share

Posted by Soulskill on from the droids-eating-blackberries dept.

Adrian writes "61.5 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in November 2010, up 10 percent from the preceding three-month period. For the first time, more Americans are using phones running Google's Android operating system than Apple's iPhone, but RIM's BlackBerry is still in first place, according to comScore. RIM fell from 37.6 percent to 33.5 percent market share of smartphones, Google captured second place among smartphone platforms by moving from 19.6 percent to 26.0 percent of US smartphone subscribers, and Apple slipped to third despite its growth from 24.2 percent to 25.0 percent of the market. Microsoft, in fourth place, fell into single digits from 10.8 percent to 9.0 percent while Palm was still last and further slipped from 4.6 percent to 3.9 percent." This is not unexpected, since Android sales have been outpacing iPhone sales for some time, but it happened significantly earlier than Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012.

6 of 550 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Gartner's prediction: Q4 2012 by AHuxley · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Capitalist rest of world you research cheapest sim to swap.
    In Soviet America telcos swap you.
    The USA can still ride the lock in profit on rust belt networks.

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  2. Re:Both are growing, however by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Android has gzip built into the Linux kernels. It would take a while to run but it could be recursively gzipped until small enough to fit. The Scene do similar things, for example the downloaded Mariah Carey and inside the RAR file there was a ZIP file.

  3. Re:Both are growing, however by Cinder6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I want a Lucy Liu bot.

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  4. Enjoy it while it lasts by mr100percent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once iPhone comes to Verizon (likely the announcement is Tuesday and release February), the iPhone will again rise to the top.

  5. Re:Both are growing, however by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well not with that attitude

  6. Re:It's funny by narcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suppose iPhones lack of turn-by-turn navigation is ... a feature?

    Turn-by-turn is ancient history. The iPhone will revolutionize they way you get from one place to another.

    You anti-Apple zealots just can't see how brilliant the lack of turn-by-turn navigation is.

    Here's a clue: It's easily twice as good as not having multi-tasking. Which was so unimaginably awesome back when we didn't have it.

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