Apple's iOS cuts gap with Android in latest comScore data

0. phoneArena posted on 06 Feb 2013, 18:57

The latest figures from comScore have been released and they cover average scores for the three months ended in December with the average of the three months ended in September and quietly, Apple has been successfully closing the gap with Android; during the three months ended in December, iOS added 2 percentage points to its U.S. market share while Android gained just .9 percentage points...

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1. andro. posted on 06 Feb 2013, 19:10 12 3

Android still has a nice lead. Funny elsewhere in the world people have awoken much faster and android handsets hold 70% of the market share. With plenty of android mega phones from a variety of manufacturers about to be announced or released the future market share is very clear

14. anywherehome posted on 07 Feb 2013, 01:11 1 0

yes, freedom is beautiful (even with its understandable problems), never any dictate :)

2. idroidequis posted on 06 Feb 2013, 19:41 3 1

Its only natural with ISO only being made with Iphones. Unlike android which has many different phones. Its like comparing the google designed nexus to all the WP. Its not that either is failing, the pie is just gettinfb bigger and the precentages are just being rearranged.

3. ThreeFourSeven posted on 06 Feb 2013, 19:45 4 0

So even with WP8 heavy hitters like the HTC 8X and Nokia Lumia 920, they still lost market share. Its going to be an interesting future with Blackberry and WP8.

9. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:58 3 0

i think its kind of going to be a like a Mexican Standoff between WP and BB , but if BB doesn't adapt to the latest specs and keeps its 2012 specs for a few years they will be pushed out

19. downphoenix posted on 07 Feb 2013, 13:23 0 0

I think they will adapt. In fact I doubt the Z10 will be the biggest release from them this year, I can see them doing a quad core phone by the end of this year with maybe a 4.5-4.7 screen.

4. techguy22 posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:06 6 7

well people here love their crappy iphone.
good for apple i guess...

7. idroidequis posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:15 6 4

A troll has appeard... A troll used fanboy attack.

8. wendygarett (limited) 4 days ago posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:58 5 1

It's super effective :)

20. BomberXL posted on 07 Feb 2013, 21:18 2 0

dude.. im team Android too... But we show our superiority not by bashing the enemy, but by proffesionally presenting our product in a curteous and well phrased manner. Let the OS and hardware of Android speak for itself. Its a beautiful thing. Lets not stoop down to that level.

5. piyath posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:08 3 3

So what????? Android >>>> Apple anyways...
And shame on Apple 36.3% : 21% (Apple:Samsung)

6. jroc74 posted on 06 Feb 2013, 20:10 1 0

I was just about to comment about this in the WP article about WP moving past BB in Q4 12. According to this article ....BB still leads WP. According to another article:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Windows-Phone-overtook-BlackBerry-for-number-three-mobile-OS-in-4th-quarter-2012_id39500

Its not, WP moved past BB.

Someone is lying, or someone got it wrong.....lol

Oh...and glad to see total market share number again. iOS and Androd both gained. MS and BB both lost... I got a feeling BB and WP will see more gains then loses from here on out. If not....oh well. They're both trying.

10. hepresearch (unregistered) posted on 06 Feb 2013, 21:16 0 1

A year ago, iOS only held 28% in the same report from the same statistics house. Android has gone up, but only marginally. +8% in 12 months for iOS, +2% in 12 months for all of Android. Android IS holding their own in the US, but Apple is knocking it out of the park in the US. This, combined with the new sales shares report showing that iPhones were nearly one out of every two smartphones sold in the US in 2012 (from another arguably equally-reputable statistics house) tells me that Apple's US mobile presence is ready to blast into space, and Google's US mobile presence is near its final peak... ready to start down the slippery slope on the other side of the mountain they've managed to climb thus far.

11. networkdood posted on 06 Feb 2013, 21:50 0 0

Wow, yet another article about what percentage of sales each OS has....very original.

13. Commentator posted on 07 Feb 2013, 01:08 2 0

Wow, yet another comment criticizing PhoneArena for doing their job and posting mobile-related articles... very original.

(So as not to be criticized for my own un-originality in copying your comment's format, I've included this parenthetical addendum. Now it doesn't look exactly like your comment!)

17. networkdood posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:47 0 0

lol, smart thinking...yeah, mama always said "if you have nothing nice to say then shut yer yap!"

18. networkdood posted on 07 Feb 2013, 08:48 0 0

P.A. could consolidate the info into one article, instead of being repetitive, IDK.

12. darac posted on 07 Feb 2013, 00:53 0 0

The heck is this??
Three month period survey?

How can now Google be in a comfortable lead, and the last time Apple was reported to sell more in the same period?

16. jroc74 posted on 07 Feb 2013, 06:28 1 0

Those other articles were reporting a difference between last year at a specific time vs the year before.

This is the total overall market share. The total overall market share charts like this always seem to show a 3 month change....but its always from the same year. Even in this article....iOS grew more than Android. 2.0% vs. 0.9%.

15. nikenturd (unregistered) posted on 07 Feb 2013, 04:50 0 0

its only in the US, Does it matter? last time I checked Android has a comfortable margin worldwide

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