“The newest report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows the iPhone with a 43.4 percent share of the United States market for the three months ending in July,” Kevin Bostic reports for AppleInsider.
“That represents a 7.8 percentage point increase over the same period from a year ago. The United States, according to Kantar’s numbers, remains Apple’s strongest market, though the iPhone saw identical growth in Great Britain, where it jumped 7.8 points year-over-year to take a 31.1 percent share,” Bostic reports. “Apple’s year-over-year growth in the United States came almost entirely at the expense of Google’s Android platform. Android, which still powers a majority of smartphones in the U.S., saw its share shrink by 7.6 points [to 51.1%].”
Bostic reports, “Over the past several quarters, the iPhone has consistently proved the most popular handset at each of the United States’ largest carriers. In the last quarter, the iPhone accounted for 51 percent of smartphone sales at Verizon, more than half at AT&T, a sizable portion of sales at Sprint, and 29 percent of T-Mobile’s gross customer additions and upgrade smartphone sales.”
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