The Samsung Galaxy S III leads the way for Samsung in the U.S.
The latest data from comScore has been released and it shows that for the three months ended in January, Apple had a superlative period and even
increased its lead over Samsung in the U.S. where Apple had a 37.8% share of the smartphone market, up from 34.3% in October. Samsung trails with a 21.4% slice of the smartphone pie in the States for the three months ended in January. HTC, Motorola and LG round out the top five with only LG showing a slight gain over the period from October's number.
Apple's iOS also
made up some ground on Android in the U.S. platform wars. With a 52.3% share of the U.S. smartphone OS market, Google's lead over iOS has dropped by 4.8 percentage points. Apple's mobile OS picked up 3.5 percentage points to 37.8% over the period, while Android slipped by 1.3 percentage points. While finishing third, it was a rough three month period for BlackBerry, which dropped 1.9 percentage points to 5.9%. Windows and Symbian finished fourth and fifth, each losing a negligible amount of market share to control 3.1% and .5% respectively.
source:
comScore via
AppleInsider
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