“Apple’s share of the U.S. smartphone market, grew to 43.4% from 35.6% between May and July according to a Kantar World Panel survey released Monday, a gain of 7.8 percentage points that came almost entirely out of the hide of Google’s Android,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“That may come as a surprise, given that Apple hasn’t released a new iPhone since September 2012, and the smartphone news this year was dominated by Samsung’s Android-based Galaxy S4, which arrived just before Kantar’s survey began. In fact, news outlets reporting on IDC’s and Gartner’s latest smartphone data have been telling a very different story,” P.E.D. reports. “The reason for the discrepancy is clearer when you see Kantar’s full spreadsheet… The world turns out to be a mosaic of very different smartphone preferences.”
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