Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share

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.

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Re:Stupid article--iOS is #1 in US market share

[SvnLyrBrto]

That's a fairly standard move from the playbook of the we-hate-Apple crowd. And it has been for at at least a decade and probably more.

It's never enough for Apple to be profitable or to increase their share value or to have a successful product or even to have a #1 product. If Apple does not dominate and overwhelm the combined share and forces of every other manufacturer in the market COMBINED; then they are a miserable and abject failure, doomed to dwindle into obscurity and irrelevance; and I should toss my Mac (Which I'm an idiot and a sheep and a zealot for buying.) into the trash and learn to like windows.

I've heard it a hundred times and I'm sure I'll hear it a hundred more. And no matter how many times I hear it, I'm going to continue to use the platform I like and buy the products that I like. I've done well so far, and so has Apple.