Google's Android and Apple's iOS gained a larger percentage of the U.S.
smartphone market in the latter part of the year, while Research in
Motion's share declined along with Microsoft and Symbian, according to
the latest figures from market researcher comScore.
Android's market share rose from 43.8 percent at the end of August to
46.9 percent at the end of last month, comScore said. A total of 91.4
million people in the U.S. own a smartphone, and comScore surveyed more
than 30,000 users to derive its figures.
Apple held 28.7 percent of the market, up from 27.3 percent. RIM slid
from a 19.7 percent share to 16.6, the biggest decline of five
platforms ranked by comScore. Microsoft declined .5 percent to 5.2
percent, and Symbian fell from 1.8 percent to 1.5 percent.
Google's open-source Android operating system is used by a variety of
major manufacturers, including Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC. Andy
Rubin, Google's senior vice president of mobile, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that 3.7 million Android devices were activated on Saturday and Sunday alone.
As far as manufacturers for both smartphones and non-smartphones,
Samsung held 25.6 percent of the market and LG at 20.5 percent. Motorola
came in third at 13.7 percent, followed by Apple at 11.2 percent and
RIM 6.5 percent.
For RIM, the figures mark what has been a difficult year for the
company, which experienced a major service outage in October and a tough
launch of its PlayBook tablet.
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