Apple's iPhone gains 2% marketshare in US as competitors falter
The latest statistics from market research firm comScore reveal Apple widened its lead over competitors in the U.S. smartphone market over the three-month period ending in May, but more importantly gained another 2 percent in the platform race as Android faltered.
According to comScore, iPhone accounted for 43.5 percent of U.S. smartphone subscriber share between March and May, a sequential jump of 1.8 percent. Coincidentally, Apple saw identical gains for the three-month period ending in April.
Rival handset maker Samsung held steady with a 28.7-percent share of the market, up 0.1 percent from February. LG, Motorola and HTC rounded out the top five, but saw their slice of the pie decline 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Android remained at the top of the smartphone OS heap in May, but dipped 0.7 percent to end the period at 52.1 percent. Apple's iOS placed second after eating up marketshare from all rivals, including Microsoft, Blackberry and Symbian.
ComScore's latest numbers reflect a changing tide pushed along by massive demand for Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets. In the crucial holiday quarter, big-screened iPhone 6 models catapulted iPhone sales to a record-breaking 74.5 million units. The performance continued into March, bucking historical post-holiday slowdowns with 61 million unit sales.
According to comScore, iPhone accounted for 43.5 percent of U.S. smartphone subscriber share between March and May, a sequential jump of 1.8 percent. Coincidentally, Apple saw identical gains for the three-month period ending in April.
Rival handset maker Samsung held steady with a 28.7-percent share of the market, up 0.1 percent from February. LG, Motorola and HTC rounded out the top five, but saw their slice of the pie decline 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Android remained at the top of the smartphone OS heap in May, but dipped 0.7 percent to end the period at 52.1 percent. Apple's iOS placed second after eating up marketshare from all rivals, including Microsoft, Blackberry and Symbian.
ComScore's latest numbers reflect a changing tide pushed along by massive demand for Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets. In the crucial holiday quarter, big-screened iPhone 6 models catapulted iPhone sales to a record-breaking 74.5 million units. The performance continued into March, bucking historical post-holiday slowdowns with 61 million unit sales.
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Didn't Steve Jobs target 1% market share? Of the overall phone market, not just smart phones...
This is good news considering the iPhone was released in the fall and competitors have release a steady stream of phones since.
Not happy to see MS's numbers trending down. We do not want a Google-Apple duopoly.
Their loss is Apple's gain.
Not happy to see MS's numbers trending down. We do not want a Google-Apple duopoly.
Doesn't bother me one bit.
Karma.
Then Microsoft needs to get out there and sell some more phones!
Google-Apple has had somewhat of a duopoly for many years.... so I don't know what you're worried about.
We've seen this before anyway. Android-iPhone-Other reminds me a lot of Windows-Macintosh-Other
There's a huge platform with a lot of OEMs in 1st place... followed by Apple with their own platform/ecosystem... then whoever's left in the combined 3rd place "Other" position.
And it's probably gonna be like that for the foreseeable future.
Not happy to see MS's numbers trending down. We do not want a Google-Apple duopoly.
You're correct that would not be best.
But MS stumbling over everything they do seems to be their current norm.
(Anyone want a WinXP netbook which I never got to like. It's so trackpad is so inconsistent I may have to join a MS Netbook Blog !
Wife hates the trackpad so much she won't use it. She does love her iPad2, which is her travel computer.
That iPad2 is my at home laptop. Who needs MS ?)
This is good news considering the iPhone was released in the fall and competitors have release a steady stream of phones since.
Yet my carrier continually tries to sell me the world's best phones, according to them.
Just a bunch of android trash, they are trying to "give away".
Yet with little advertising someone must be buying those high priced iPhones.
Who are those iPhone buyers ?
Which is funny since they listed the top 3 phones as the iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S6. S5 sells more yet they claim the S6 is driving sales.
Even funnier is Kantar stating Android in the U.S. is around 65% with iOS at 30%. And this is for the same 3 month period ending May 2015.
Shows you how screwed up these analysts are.
It's a shame that Samsung's up and LG and HTC are down. Both make nicer hardware than Samsung does.
Apple sets yet another record for U.S. market share, while Android yet again fails to match their record of 53.4% in early 2012. Android has gone nowhere for more than three years, which is unsurprising considering how little that platform has to offer in terms of innovation. The stagnation shows no sign of stopping either.
Not that Comscore is any better, but did anyone see the Kantar Worldpanel the other day? All the Android sites were referencing it with the headline "Galaxy S6 powers Samsung to retake smartphone lead in U.S." Or similar.
Which is funny since they listed the top 3 phones as the iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S6. S5 sells more yet they claim the S6 is driving sales.
Even funnier is Kantar stating Android in the U.S. is around 65% with iOS at 30%. And this is for the same 3 month period ending May 2015.
Shows you how screwed up these analysts are.
The analysts are fine, you just don't read. ComScore measures usage, Kantar measures sales. Because Android phones are mostly cheap junk, they don't get used for as long before they are thrown out. This leads to high sales but low usage, just as these reports show.
In 2007 when the iPhone came out Steve Jobs was quoted as saying he expected iPhone to take only 10% of the smartphone market. Even then he knew that the vast majority of the burgeoning smartphone market would be filled out with low-end junk purchased by those representing the then vast mobile phone [flip phone] market. Jobs and Apple never wanted that segment of the market and Jobs was forecasting what has finally come to pass; that the iPhone's share of the smartphone market would eventually equate to the iPhone's share of the overall mobile market as all the mobile phones are replaced with barely more functional phones that, due to their screen size and ability to run a web browser, would be termed smartphones.
It took years for Microsoft to finally reap what they sowed: years of focusing on their competitors instead of their customers and the user experience.
I for one am happy to see the end of Microsoft Windows everywhere, especially mobile. Whenever someone could call Microsoft Windows a monopoly Bill Gates would shrug his shoulders and say the market was free to chose their own operating system if they didn't like Windows. We did, Mr. Gates.
It all magically comes together into one magical fork of "Android" whenever someone wants numbers to prop up an "Android is dominating" narrative.