comScore today released data from comScore MobiLens and Mobile Metrix, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for December 2013. Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 41.8 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 51.5 percent platform market share. Google Sites ranked as the top mobile media property, while Facebook was the top individual app.
Smartphone OEM Market Share
156 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (65.2 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in December, up 3.2 percent since September. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 41.8 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 1.2 percentage points from September). Samsung ranked second with 26.1 percent market share (up 1.2 percentage points), followed by Motorola with 6.7 percent, LG with 6.6 percent and HTC with 5.7 percent.
Smartphone Platform Market Share
Android ranked as the top smartphone platform in December with 51.5 percent market share, followed by Apple with 41.8 percent (up 1.2 percentage points), BlackBerry with 3.4 percent, Microsoft with 3.1 percent and Symbian with 0.2 percent.
Top Smartphone Properties & Apps
Google Sites ranked as the top web property on smartphones, reaching 88.3 percent of the mobile media audience (mobile browsing and app usage), followed by Facebook (86 percent), Yahoo Sites (82.4 percent) and Amazon Sites (73.3 percent). Facebook ranked as the top smartphone app, reaching 77.4 percent of the app audience, followed by Google Play (53.9 percent), Google Search (49.7 percent) and Pandora Radio (48.7 percent).
Source: comScore, Inc.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Judge Bork” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Now the stock will go down again.
Right. Apple is a loser according to anal-ysts, is it not?
Not really. Analysts and their pump and dump fast twitch high freq traders want it jumping up and down so they can make double digit returns on Apple each quarter.
*DING* You are correct! …Or some such bullshit manipulation.
A doctor walks into the surgery where a patient is strapped to the gurney ready for an operation.
‘I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is we have an exact match for a donor kidney for you.”
“Ok so what’s the bad news doc?” the patient groggily asks.
“The bad news is that we removed it from a monkey this morning. How do you feel about that?”
“About as good as Android is feeling right now.”
Lets see how the ANAL-yst reacts to this one.
They will create a new negative stories about Apple.
These statistics are bullshit!
I keep reading about Androids triumphant spread through the marketplace and yet Comwhore has yet another take?
Apple shareholders already took their 8% hit on earnings on top of all the other hits over the past year or so. It’s too late to get any of it back. Meanwhile, Google and Android will continue rolling uphill at a steady speed based on global market share. Only emerging nations are considered the new frontier where Apple’s higher-priced iPhone has no traction.
Apple’s reputation as being a good investment is thoroughly tainted thanks to low-cost Android devices.
I doubt that not more than 33% of ‘smart phone’ users make any use of their ‘smart phone’.
Oh Samsung. You’re getting soooo screwed.