Apple, Google Increase Smart Phone Market Share

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

25-percent-thumb2167209 Just another landmark number for Apple and its increasingly popular iPhone.

comScore recently released the numbers for the the last quarter of 2009 and show Apple and Google to have made the biggest strides in a market that remains open with an estimated 234 million mobile phone users domestically. It is believed that 0f this 234 million only 17% of these are using smartphones. This up from 11% in 2008.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points in US market share eclipsing 25% for the first time at 25.3% up from 24.1.

Google, however, made the biggest strides with their Android phones up 2.7 points and doubling their market share from 2.5% to 5.2%. Palm was the biggest loser down 2.1% to 6.1%, a trend that if continued will have them looking at the back of Google by the end of the first quarter of 2010.

While RIM, the makers of Blackberry, still dominate the market with over 42% of the smart phones in use in the US market they saw a single point drop as did Microsoft who, in third, have an 18% share.

In a huge market, it appears as if the two giants will be battling it out for some time.

This is an article by the App Machine.