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Google Android takes #2 spot from Apple’s iPhone in the US

Monday, May 10th, 2010

According to Reuters, Google’s Android has over taken Apple’s iPhone as the second most popular provider of smartphone software in the USA during the first quarter!

It’s a good sign of the increasing competition in the ever growing mobile market.

Android accounted for around 28 percent of the unit sales, and whilst there are lots of promises from Steve Jobs about new iPhone technology to come, could it just be more iHype?

Android’s market share growing

Friday, April 9th, 2010

graph-going-up-300x2991According to ComScore, Google Android is continuing to gain market share in the US whilst Palm and Microsoft look to be losing ground yet again over the past 90 days.

Android went up 5.2% to hold a 9% share of the market whilst Windows mobile fell to 15.11% and WebOS fell to 5.4%.

Whilst Apple still hold 25.4% of the market with their iPhone brand, this figure has dropped slightly in the last quarter, whilst Blackberry (Research in Motion) gained 1.3% to 42.1%, still a commanding lead.

So what can we expect in the next quarter?  Android continues to develop and the variety of phones available are growing all the time.  Can Apple match that rate of progress?  Whilst BlackBerry still maintain a healthy lead due to business use, will companies start to test out the Android platform as a realistic alternative?  They haven’t with the iPhone, but Apple never marketed their platform for that market whereas the Android system has far more flexible software, hardware and development platforms.

Watch this space for the figures from the next 90 days where we’ll have a look internationally at how things are moving.

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