? PermalinkAndroid stealing market share from RIM, Microsoft, PalmRIM is the biggest loser as Android continues its inexorable march to the top of the smartphone market, according to comScore latest figures. By Eric ZemanInformationWeek April 4, 2011 11:20 In the three-month period between November 2010 and February 2011, comScore shows Android jumping 7 percentage points from 26% to 33% of the U.S. market for smart phones. Android stole almost all from Research In Motion, which lost 4.6% and decreased from 33.5% to 28.9% of the U.S. market. Android also stole some share from Microsoft and Palm, despite the fact that Windows 7 Phone launched in late 2010 and Palm (now owned by HP) launched a new smartphone on the Verizon network in the three-month period examined by comScore. Microsoft's share fell from 9% to 7.7%, a loss of 1.3% of the total market. Palm's share dropped from 3.9% to 2.8%, a loss of 1.1% of the total market.
Smartphones running Google Android has passed Apple's iPhone to be the leading smartphone platform in the UK, according to a survey by YouGov. Android took the top spot from Apple, with a 28 percent share, 26 percent of respondents said they use an iPhone, and BlackBerry came in third with 14 percent of the vote. Other mobile companies were left after the following: 6 percent voted for Symbian, and only 5 percent named Windows 7 Phone as their preferred platform. The survey polled 2,000 British adults was carried out for the banking provider Intelligent Environments. Predictions about the mobile OS wars are common.
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The reason behind the Android's success is pretty simple.
Hardware manufacturers have banked their high-end device strategy on Google's platform for smartphones, is kicking out exciting, appealing devices almost every week.
RIM has not introduced a major new handsets since August 2010, when it announced the Torch.
Apart from a couple of spec bumps for his Curve and Bold lines, RIM has focused almost all its energy on the playbook tablet in the past six months.
This strategy has cost RIM's market share in the segment there used to totally own.
Apple's growth in the market for smart phones with the iPhone has stopped.
In the same three-month period, it increased only from 25% to 25.2%.
At least Apple did not lose market share.
Apple's next iPhone, when it can get, really need to take with respect to new features if Apple wants to maintain the market it already has.
If it does not offer a significant spec and jump with their next iPhone, Apple stands to lose market share to Android.
It is hard to understand Microsoft's drop in market share.
It launched Windows 7 Phone in the U.S.
in November 2010.
Although Microsoft has not shared the mobile phone sales to end users, it did bill that the channel stuffed full of two million Windows 7 Phone smart phones.
It also continues to sell Windows Mobile 6.x-based devices to the enterprise.
It is encouraging to see that Microsoft is losing earth in the U.S.
despite the launch of a completely new platform.
Palm / HP continues to be in the worst position.
With a decline from 3.9% to 2.8% of the total market, fell Palm's sales by 25% between November 2010 and February 2011.
Palm Pre2 launched on the Verizon network in late January.
It probably did not help that Pre2 not hit Verizon's shelves until after the Verizon iPhone was announced.
As for the handset vendors themselves, Samsung has carved out the top spot for themselves, with 24.8% of U.S.
users who claim to own a Samsung-made device.
Amazingly, LG lands at number two spot with 20.9% of U.S.
interests in relation to the actual hardware sales.
Motorola has 16.1% of the U.S.
handset market, RIM has 8.6%, and Apple has 7.5%.
(This data includes all phones, not just smart phones.) ComScore notes that the Verizon version of the Apple iPhone 4 was the best-selling phone in February.
iPhone is old and outdated. IPad is next. Jobs drops to the floor and assume the fetal position ever time he hears the word Android. Reply to CommentPermalinkShareEmailReportTwo different marketsComment jbelkin of April 4, 2011, 11:20 AM EDT Bla bla blaComment of tis123 April 6, 2011, 3:48 EDT @ jebelkin - Face it, Apple will never have the # 1 mobile platformComment of mickey nuts April 5, 2011 8:45 p.m. PM EDT Wont be good enoughComment of tis123 April 6, 2011, 3:31 EDT Last commentBla browse blaComment of tis123 April 6, 2011, 3:48 EDT What ever makes you sleep better at night, the fact that Android rules the mobile market . iPhone is old and outdated. IPad is next. Jobs drops to the floor and assume the fetal position ever time he hears the word Android. Reply to CommentPermalinkShareEmailReport1 - Two marketsComment jbelkin of April 4, 2011, 11:20 EDT own Android cumulative fragmented and all versions of the low end of the market for smart phones.
It is acceptable OS choice when buyers are unwilling, unable or do not care to choose the IOS (ie - paying full price) versus a \free \smartphone OS - they accept the android on a $ 29 smart phone, but do not surf online or buy many applications.
Apple owns 85% of software market revenue - it's a professional smart phone OS and the rest - even Google admits this.
The fact that two android smartphones from even the same telco look similar means android's darkness share of each OS running another telco skin means that the truth is every android phone means to learn a new OS, and why it is true market share of the phone is closer to 1% market share and more representative of the true power of Android as a market force.
Reply to CommentPermalinkShareEmailReport1.1 - Bla bla blaComment of tis123 April 6, 2011, 3:48 EDT What ever makes you sleep better at night, the fact that Android rules the mobile market.
iPhone is old and outdated.
IPad is next.
Reply to CommentPermalinkShareEmailReport2 - @ jebelkin - Face it, Apple will never have the # 1 mobile platformComment of mickey nuts April 5, 2011, 20:45 PM EDT Sucks, right? After spending hundreds of millions and at least nine years, they end up as # 2 ... or maybe even # 3 Worse, they lost to a company that had zero experience in retail electronics, zero reputation in the consumer products and zero experience in OS design. But each month the numbers keep climbing and always in favour of Android, although people like to troll every thread to Android helpful to explain how the impossible can happen. iPhone is so good there is no room for another OS, you said. Android is just on a cheap phone on the smallest U.S. carrier, you said. iPhone gotten an unbeatable head start, you said. Android is too fragmented, you said. iPhone is so live, active that they can not fill all the orders, you said. Android users will not pay for the apps, you said. iPhone does not need multiple devices or multiple carriers, you said.
iPhone is going to win once it goes to Verizon, you said.
Blah, blah, blah ...
And still all the headlines and independent statistics keep proving you wrong, or at least prove that the smart phone buyers like the android in greater numbers than they like the iPhone.
You can move the goalposts all you like, you can try painting stupid things, or even move the game to another stadium, but it will not change the fact that the iPhone is lost to the little green robot.
Worldwide.
Badly.
With no signs this will change.
Ever.
As I said up top: Sucks, right? It's just a phone, man.
Get over it and get over yourself.
Reply to CommentPermalinkShareEmailReport3 - Will not be good enoughComment of tis123 April 6, 2011, 3:31 EDT Whatever iPhone come up with the specifications will be out of date to the time when it was released, though rumors of an 8 me pix cam is not enough to Android dethrone given that no Android phones have that and more now.
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