That is the question I ask after ComScore latest mobile market share data. One of three U.S. smartphone users Android - it was the end of February. It's March, so the numbers are certainly higher, based on the three-month trend. Holy moly. Two months ago, revealed ComScore data for the three months ending in December. For this period, the Android market rose 7.3 points, 7 points during the recent three-month period. Since the end of September, then rose Android market share from 21.4 per cent to 33 per cent. To be clear: This is actually a subscriber share, means the install base for U.S. cellular users, not units sold over three months. Have you noticed that Apple has started to aggressively advertise the iPhone four on TV again? Android's gains are certainly an important reason, it is the launch of the iPhone on Verizon.
However, iPhone share rose by 0.09 percent, the biggest gain among the five manufacturers - it is up 7.5 percent from 6.6 percent.
Samsung leader with 24.8 per cent share.
ComScore surveyed 30,000 U.S.
mobile users to compile the data, and it's a helluva range.
According to comScore, Americans owned 69500000 smartphones by the end of February, up 13 percent from three months earlier.
Just Android and IOS had to share - 7.2 points in total.
By the way, ComScore's numbers basically look good for Verizon iPhone - the best-selling handset in February.
But trying to cut the numbers in several ways, I can not see where they cord to 1 million first sale, which some analysts have speculated - and Apple fan club of blogs and news sites shamlessly reported as fact.
Remember, Apple and Verizon does not say how many units shipped, which is not typical for an iPhone launch of this caliber.
That puts the Research in Motion, which shares fell 4.6 per cent over three months, and Apple in tough spots.
RIM is now in free fall, from a platform perspective.
Android and IOS is where the programs are.
While Apple is the large number of mobile applications, Android gains continuously.
Developers usually go where the money is.
As Windows PCs have shown, provides the platform with the largest number of users the largest economies of scale.
Android is heading in the right direction, while RIM BlackBerry OS is the wrong way.
Apple is consistent, which is a commendable performance, but the numbers must be greater to win the mobile platform wars.
Answer QuestionCan Android be stopped? Should it be? The answer is complex.1.
As the PC market has shown, standardization around a single, dominant platform huge advantage.
Developers can write applications once that most people can use anywhere.
Standardization is also good to support hardware, such as external devices.
Since Apple opened its first store in May 2001, increased Mac's U.S.
market share from about 2 percent to nearly 10 percent in the quarter fourth of 2010 calendar.
Mac OS X was launched in 2001, with a sparse number of apps.
It's lot today, and would be fewer, or none if the developers not doing money.3.
The mobile phone market has long supported multiple platforms in different degrees of dominance.
BlackBerry OS, Palm OS, Symbian and Windows Mobile was successful in varying ways before IOS and Android handset debuted in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
Right now the market is consolidated around the five major mobile operating systems.
Android, BlackBerry OS, Ios, Symbian and Windows phone 7/Mobile.
Windows phone will replace Symbian, which Nokia switches primary operating system.
These five (four in 2013) are changing places, but no location has yet certain.4.
Microsoft Nokia is suddenly a wild card capable of rocking the market.
Android and Windows phone is licensed by third parties - not WebOS, Blackberry, or IOS.
IDC predicts Windows Phone 7/Mobile will be back for Android in the smartphone OS shipments in 2015.
I am sceptical of IDC's forecast, for reasons independent of the market potential (which recently missed predictions and volatile mobile market).
But if Microsoft and Nokia can get phones to market quickly with good programs and services supported by the handset maker's vast manufacturing and distribution network, Windows Phone putting breaks on Android - no matter where either end up in the market share race.
Quite possibly, rather than a few of the other, increased competition for the same handset manufacturers and developers to make way for some or all of the end-to-end competitors to push ahead.5.
Android is the platform fragmentation undermines the appeal.
But fragmentation is broader, with Android 3.x for tablets.
As Nokia has already shown with Symbian, fragmentation reduces end-user experience and create problems for developers and their customers.
Just because Android swallow market share as Pac-Man, does not mean the broader platform will provide the programs people want the most or can use easily enough.6.
Apple's mobile platform is the most exciting option right now, and it will be before more of the competing operating systems - such as Android, BlackBerry and WebOS - ship on tablets and other devices in addition to cellular handsets.
The cloud-connected device era is larger than smartphones.
Apple offers a platform that scales from $ 49 IOS devices to the $ 2499 Mac OS X laptops.7.
Sync is the killer application for the cloud-connected era.
I've been harping on this point this year.
Right now, Google and Microsoft offers a range of cloud and sync services compared to other mobile OS providers.
Apple will provide depth, but not as much width. Google's mobile sync and support services ranging from search to shopping to e-mail to maps on the news and much much more - all tied to a single user identity. Google's Android might cloud the largest factor in the day, even before the end user to install third-party app wrapping up, Android has incredible speed, with sales of 888.8 percent in 2010, according to Gartner. It is not unstoppable, but might as well be. Do you agree? Comments awaiting your answers.
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