“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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