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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.

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  1. hahahahah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hahahah apple sucks

  2. This all seems kind of wonky by dangitman · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is comparing apples to oranges. The iPhone is a single device from a single manufacturer. "Android market share" consists of many different devices from several different manufacturers. Why are they comparing two unlike things? If you wanted to compare Android to anything, it should include all iOS devices, such as the iPod Touch and iPad as well as the iPhone.

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  3. My penis is bigger than yours! by schnikies79 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yawn...

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  4. Re:iTunes is most obnoxious sw ever by dbIII · · Score: -1, Troll

    True, I had to hunt around the net and then show a well educated and intelligent iPhone owner how to back up their phone in iTunes before sending it in for repair. It should be a very obvious feature in the program that I should have been able to find in under ten minutes of using the software and it's help menu. The option should have been presented in such a way that the user who used the thing every week should be able to find it easily.
    Right click on this, then left click on that - twisty maze of icons and then menus - how TF does something as clunky as that descend from a program on a platform that only has one mouse button anyway?
    Some idiot is bound to say it's all my fault for not being able to do my job. It's not my job or even my hobby to run iTunes but sometimes it's good to help people out.

  5. Re:It's funny by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure they did AC.