link : http://www.gsmarena.com/android_nears_50_mark_in_the_us_comscore_reports-news-3594.php

"comScore has just published their new report on the US smartphone market and it turns out that there are no dramatic changes to be witnessed. Android continued to be the fastest growing mobile platform around and even the launch of the iPhone 4S wasn't enough for iOS to match its growth.

In the three months ending on November 30, 46.9% of the smartphone users in the US had a Google OS device. That's 3.1 percent points higher than the Android market share for the previous three months.

iOS came in a fairly distant second - Apple's proprietary platform gained 1.4 percent point and had a market share of 28.7%. RIM's struggles continue as BlackBerry OS lost further 3.1 percent points and now only powers 16.6% of the US smartphones.

Symbian and Microsoft didn't have a particularly good time in the market either, the two platforms dropping 0.5 and 0.3 percent points of their respective market shares.

But for all the success that Android is having, the second part of the comScore report shows that Apple is the single company to register the biggest growth in the past three months. The Cupertino-based company now owns 11.4% of the cell phone market (that includes smartphones and featuresphones) and is breathing down Motorola's neck for the third spot.

At the top Samsung extended its lead over the second placed LG and now accounts for more than a quarter of all mobile devices sold in the US.

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sounds good for google

nice avatar pic >_

thanks

well right now they are far away from getting there i guess

Definitely won't be long before Android hits the 50% mark.

It's not good that MS lost marketshare being so low already. They better pull out some big stops if they want the WP7 to have a viable future.

Still lots of juicy RIM meat to eat into.

i just came back from selnor's thread about the wp7 phone being named for an award............. i guess that it's kind of like having a rare novel that only you and few others like, but a couple of people in this fictitious sort of group doesn't like this author anymore

Just so everybody is clear, comscore tracks installed base, not unit sales. Android unit sales have been ~50% in the US for some time now, but a 3% surge in comScore numbers suggests Android has been well north of 50% these past few months. comScore also present these stats as a 3 month moving average, so spiky events like product launches tend to get smoothed out and might not fully manifest for a few months.

And if RIM is cratering that fast, it's probably already under a 10% share of unit sales.

Expected,and deserved.Android is the best OS out there at the moment.

Damned. Why nobody wants to use WP7 phones? The system is fucking good!!!!!!!

great sales for Android devices, and Apple holding steady as always :)