Google’s Android operating system leads the smartphone market with a majority 51.7 percent share in the United States, but competitors are gaining ground, according to a report released Monday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms are now actually surpassing Android in terms of growth rates.
Although smartphone sales have remained relatively stable this year, iOS gained 2.3 percentage points in market share, and Windows Phone rose 1.8 percentage points, while Android grew only 1.4 percentage points year on year, the report found.
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Windows Phone, iOS Outpace Android
Posted by: Enid Burns June 4, 2013 11:39 AMGoogle’s Android operating system leads the smartphone market with a majority 51.7 percent share in the United States, but competitors are gaining ground, according to a report released Monday by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platforms are now actually surpassing Android in terms of growth rates.
Although smartphone sales have remained relatively stable this year, iOS gained 2.3 percentage points in market share, and Windows Phone rose 1.8 percentage points, while Android grew only 1.4 percentage points year on year, the report found.