“Apple continues to hold the market share lead in the United States, with 41.9% of the market to Samsung’s 27.8%,” Paul Ausick reports for 24/7 Wall St. “Rounding out the top five smartphone makers are LG Electronics with a 6.5% share, down 0.3% compared with February; Motorola with a 6.3% share, unchanged since February; and HTC Corp. with 5.1% share, down 0.3%.”
“On the operating system (platform) front, Apple gained 0.6% share in the three-month period to post a total of 41.9% of the platform market,” Ausick reports. “Google Inc.’s Android platform was unchanged during the period, and it continues to hold over half the platform market, with a 52.1% share. BlackBerry Ltd. dropped 0.6% to post a 2.3% share, while Microsoft Corp. remained unchanged with a 3.4% share.”
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What a nice non-problem to have!
One of the first time shit doesn’t stick? 😉 Sorry google..
> Google Inc.’s Android platform was unchanged during the period, and it continues to hold over half the platform market, with a 52.1% share.
Barely “over half.” But it’s meaningless, because Android as a “platform” is so fragmented that it should not be considered ONE platform for practical purposes.
Apple has “almost half” as ONE company that makes every device in that “41.9%” of the pie, with just THREE models. And Apple does this without resorting to “fire sales” or X-for-one offers, to bump up the numbers.
How DARE you be logical
Yet Google still has the larger share. Oh well lets hope the upcoming Galaxy Note knock off will pull the wall huggers and Tim Cook Gayboys in
“Yet Google still has the larger share.”
*facepalm*
The “Android collective” is hardly “Google.” 🙂
Google’s so-called “larger share” is a fragmented malware-infested mess, running in large part on glorified feature phones.
What’s the point of having a larger share of the market if you don’t make any money from it?
The “android” numbers include forked products like Kindles that have no current connection with Google’s products. Just as well include Linux with OSX because they were both inspired by UNIX.
That’s a point that I try to often make. “Android” is a catch-all term that applies to at least seven or eight companies phone offerings.
Each one is different than the other, and one one doesn’t sell as well as the other, and yet they’re all treated as one.
If analysts were trying to be fair, they would say that Samsung’s version of Android sells this much, while HTC’s fork sells that much, and so on instead of treating them exactly as the same.
Samsung and Google quake with fear at the impending offensive known as iPhone 6. Apple has been under attack around the globe but always maintained its stronghold, America, nearing her 238th birthday just as many who haphazardly stumbled into the Android vortex of doom are now prepared to think different and declare their own independence. Android has gone unchecked for too long, infecting the world like an airborne virus. Cook & Ive will soon deploy a cure that lifts humanity from the depths of despair.
Yep. Android-peddlers better come out with a truly killer device and soon, or else the Android market will be confined to only three types of customers: those who like to hack their phones, those who are cheap/poor, and those who have a pathological hatred of Apple.
Actually, that’s pretty much the Android market now, albeit with a few extra customers who like the big screen.
——RM
That’s five types. I would add a sixth type: those who don’t know any better and are duped by carrier salesmen.
What about those who want a phone that better meets their needs? Or need a longer battery life? Or something bigger? Or just want a better phone?
Better battery life and better phone? Well, they would have an iPhone, now wouldn’t they? As for bigger screen… not too long now…
…how poetic! 🙂 +1