Not bad for iPhone 4S, considering it was selling only half of the month
Also, you made incorrect assertion in one of your previous posts, saying that Samsung was #1 smartphone producer in USA in Q3. Data for that quarter does not support that: Samsung found their the biggest selling smartphone on 5th position in Q3 according to NPD and overall had only about 11% of smartphone penetration share (and that includes other than Android OS devices, too; HTC had 15% only on Android) according to Nielsen.
And even in this post in the title you added Samsung's cumulative phone sales to Android market share, though one has little to do with another (about 3/4 of Samsung's phones that the company sells are regular phones which do not run Android, according to Q2 data, which was the last time Samsung published sales figures for smartphones), nor it has anything to do with sales of iPhones, which are smartphones.
Failure in quality of reporting, alas.
comScore today released the latest key trends in the U.S. mobile phone market during the three months ending in October.
Once again, Samsung retained the top spot amongst U.S. subscribers, retaining its 25.5 percent share; showing no growth nor decline on past results.
(Source: comScore)
Out of the 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers surveyed, it was found that from the three-month average period up to the end of October, 234 million Americans aged 13 and older used a mobile device.
comScore said that just under a third of all U.S. phone owners had a smartphone, up by 10 percent from the preceding three-month period; showing that smartphones use is still on the rise.
This should come as no surprise, as rival analytics firm Nielsen said this week that while Google and Apple retain the top spot for phones and mobile operating system users, the BlackBerry maker, Microsoft and Nokia have an uphill battle to contend with.
As expected, considering Samsung uses Android in the vast majority of its smartphones, the Google-developed operating system came top as well, reaching 41.9 percent of the U.S. market.
(Source: comScore)
While it was expected for a significant growth from the Apple iPhone, considering its exceptional sales in the first weekend of its release, Apple’s share grew only 1.3 percent to just shy of 11 percent in the three month period.
Having said that, out of the top manufacturers, only Apple was able to show any growth whatsoever, with LG declining by 0.3 percent, Motorola losing out on 0.5 percent, and the BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion losing 1 percent.
Google stormed ahead with a 3.4 percent lead growth over Apple’s in the three months selected, while Research in Motion struggled the most, with more subscribers turning away from the BlackBerry smartphone in favour of alternatives.
Over the course of the end of July to October three month period, there was an increase in users downloading applications for their smartphones, followed by a greater use of the mobile browser.
Related:
- Apple, Google retain smartphone lead; Uphill battle for RIM, Microsoft and Nokia
- One in four U.S. phones is a Samsung; BlackBerry, Motorola losing ground
- Android grows in U.S. smartphone market; Samsung holds steady
- Samsung leads as top mobile manufacturer in U.S. (report)
- Apple iPhone 4S: 4 million in sales in first weekend
