Who’s winning in the United States: Android or Apple? If you’ve been watching AAPL’s shares, you might think Google’s mopping the floor with Apple, but you’d be wrong. According to new data, Apple now commands 53.3% of the U.S. smartphone market.
The numbers come from 12-week sales numbers from tracking firm Kantar Worldpanel Comtech, who have found that Apple is at its highest ever level of smartphone sales penetration. One in two people with smartphones now have iPhones, with Apple’s gain coming at Android and RIM’s loss, with Android dropping 10% from last year and RIM dropping 6%, to come in at fourth place behind Windows Phone.
Of course, the story’s a lot less clear in Europe, where Android is still the platform to beat, with a 61% share of the market. Android also mops up the floor with Apple in other important markets like Australia, China and Brazil.
Source: Kantar
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
One response to “1 In 2 U.S. Smartphones Are Now iPhones [Report]”
soon 1.75 of 2 in costa rica will be iphone :P