Apple Overtakes Research in Motion in U.S. Smartphone Usage Share
comScore today released the results of its April survey of mobile phone usage in the United States, finding that Apple has nudged past Research in Motion to claim the second spot among smartphone platforms behind Android. According to the data, Android continues to widen its lead and now holds 36.4% of the market, while Apple's iOS holds 26.0% and Research in Motion's BlackBerry operating system has slipped to 25.7%.
When looking at mobile phone manufacturers overall, Apple is now the fourth most-popular vendor with 8.3% of the market, once again barely beating out Research in Motion.
comScore's surveys of over 30,000 mobile phone subscribers examine installed user base rather than quarterly sales as with many other sources. Consequently, comScore's data examines a slightly different metric that is slower to respond to shifts in sales trends. Apple passed Research in Motion in quarterly U.S. shipments late last year, but the BlackBerry maker's historical lead had enabled it to hold off Apple in installed user base share until recently.
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I agree, but iOS is not the best mobile operating system.
*YAWN*
Yes, yes, we get it. iOS, Android, Win, Mac, Chevy, Ford, football, futball, yadda, yadda...
That's what you assumed I was speaking of. This whole conversation has to deal with market share. There are many different factors that affect a buyers decision and Android seems to win over on the majority of them because they have the better market exposure.
Please stop...
Then the next buying decision would be what carrier can I use for this phone. Still, if you take any of these best selling Android phones individually they will not have as many sales as the iPhone has.
Yeah but that wasnt my point at all. Nice try. I just think its extremely naive to think that a majority of the Android base is made up of misguided, budget shoppers.
For all we know many of the consumers are not educated enough to specifically ask for a phone with an Android OS...instead they are asking for the cheapest.
My household consists of 2 adults and 3 children. All 3 children are approaching the age where they will be asking for cell phones. When my wife and I decide to get them the phones Android's market share will be 3/5 of our household where Apple's will only be 2/5. There's no way I'm going to buy them the more expensive iPhone...
In my mind the iPhone has greater brand value than any other phone on the market. Brand value goes a long way.
I love this general assumption that everyone who isnt OS educated just walks into a cell store and asks for the cheapest phone available. If we apply a little logic to this wouldn't the phone with the best brand awareness be the first choice for someone who is "In the market" and not tech savvy?
Maybe this so called "Idiot" consumer was able to walk into a store and make an educated decision based on what they saw, felt and heard when trying out a phone.
Yes, that's my point. In your case your geek friends went with iPhones, in other cases they go for Android, but they are choosing based on tech features that fit their needs and wants. They do not generally choose based on what's the cheapest.
Your non-geeky friends went with Android because they are available and cheap. That's my point. If all those phone manufacturers switched from Android to Windows, for example, your non-geeky friends would then be buying cheap Windows phones, and the Win Phone market share would jump overnight. And it wouldn't be because of demand for Windows...
I agree. They buy them because they are similar to iPhones and are inexpensive. If iPhones cost the same they would probably buy them instead.
The phone OS isn't a consideration for them. I even had to explain to one friend that his phone was running Android, he'd never heard of it before. :)
I don't ever believe this because next week you will hear that Android will have more market share and blah blah blah it's always different.
In my mind the iPhone is THE BEST smart phone.
I agree and I love my iPhone.
But: Android also has a few great ones, but to many garbage ones and that blurs the whole Android Picture.
I don't ever believe this because next week you will hear that Android will have more market share and blah blah blah it's always different.
Did you look at the graphs in the summary ? We don't really have to wait to next week to hear about Android having more market share. ;)
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