An interesting development is occurring in the smartphone market. It has been less than two years since its inception but Android passed Microsoft in the latest data collected by
ComScore. The numbers show that Android is stealing a lot of customers from all other competition. These scores however don't point out that the smartphone market is growing, and growing quickly. Each smartphone platform gained subscribers during the time frame shown below.
Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Jul. 2010 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2010
Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens |
| | Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers |
| Apr-10 | Jul-10 | Point Change |
| Total Smartphone Subscribers | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| RIM | 41.1% | 39.3% | -1.8 |
| Apple | 25.1% | 23.8% | -1.3 |
| Google | 12.0% | 17.0% | 5.0 |
| Microsoft | 14.0% | 11.8% | -2.2 |
| Palm | 4.9% | 4.9% | 0.0 |
By Chase Thompson
Source ComScore
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