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Android Passes BlackBerry In US Market Share

Posted by timothy on from the king-for-a-day-but-that-damn-sword-above dept.

An anonymous reader writes "69.5 million people in the US owned smartphones during the three months ending in February 2011, up 13 percent from the preceding three-month period. For the first time, more Americans are using phones running Google's Android operating system than Research In Motion's BlackBerry, according to comScore. Having passed the iPhone in the preceding three-month period, this now means that Android has been crowned king in the US."

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  1. Re:fuck yeah by rainmouse · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who's up for a game of spot the fanboy? From either side of the fence.

  2. How can this be? by mrclisdue · · Score: -1, Redundant

    B-b-b-but Android has fragments, and open sores, and isn't shiny, and doesn't require chin-beards, nor turtlenecks, nor doves.

    And Android has something to do with Google.

    And where is the wall to this garden? How can we protect ourselves from ourselves? Who will look after our best interests, if not for the wonderful folks at Apple?

    Look, up in the sky...it's a bird!...it's a plane!....no, wait, it's, it's Windows Phone 7!!!! The choice of everyone who will never buy or use a smartphone!

    Yay! Microsoft comes to the rescue, once again.....thanks cloud.

    cheers,

    ps. MS, instead of money, please send me a tablet even though you think they're a fad.