Apple continues to gain ground in US smartphone market as Android shrinks
Apple not only remained dominant in the U.S. smartphone market during the June quarter, but was also the only top-five OEM to exhibit gains over the three-month period, according to new data from research firm comScore.
The latest numbers from comScore's MobiLens tracker, released on Friday, show iPhone grew its share of the U.S. market to 44.1 percent in June, up 1.5 percent quarter over quarter.
Trailing Apple was Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC, all of which suffered minor declines in marketshare, suggesting Apple is winning over Android converts. Samsung's piece of the pie dropped 0.2 points to 28.1 percent, while smaller players LG and Motorola both saw dips of 0.1 percent to end the quarter with a respective 8.3 percent and 4.9 percent marketshare. HTC was hardest hit with a fall of 0.4 percent for the quarter, dropping its take down to 3.4 percent of the market.
As for America's most popular operating system, Android continues to see its once commanding lead whittled away by Apple's iOS. Google's share of the market dropped from 52.4 percent to 51.6 percent, shrinking the buffer zone between No. 2 Apple to 7.5 points.
Both Microsoft and BlackBerry saw a negative 0.4 point change during the June quarter, dropping their share of smartphone subscribers to 2.9 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. Symbian held steady, but trailed the pack with a 0.1-percent marketshare.
Since launching larger-screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models last year, Apple has gobbled up marketshare from competing manufacturers. Apple sold 47.5 million iPhones over the June quarter, a record-setting performance that drove company revenue to $49.6 billion. That upward trend is expected to continue as the company prepares to launch next-generation handsets in the coming weeks.
According to the latest rumor, Apple's so-called "iPhone 6s" series could debut at a special event on on Sept. 9. The smartphone duo is widely expected to feature a faster "A9" SoC with 2GB of RAM, Force Touch display technology and camera upgrades.
The latest numbers from comScore's MobiLens tracker, released on Friday, show iPhone grew its share of the U.S. market to 44.1 percent in June, up 1.5 percent quarter over quarter.
Trailing Apple was Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC, all of which suffered minor declines in marketshare, suggesting Apple is winning over Android converts. Samsung's piece of the pie dropped 0.2 points to 28.1 percent, while smaller players LG and Motorola both saw dips of 0.1 percent to end the quarter with a respective 8.3 percent and 4.9 percent marketshare. HTC was hardest hit with a fall of 0.4 percent for the quarter, dropping its take down to 3.4 percent of the market.
As for America's most popular operating system, Android continues to see its once commanding lead whittled away by Apple's iOS. Google's share of the market dropped from 52.4 percent to 51.6 percent, shrinking the buffer zone between No. 2 Apple to 7.5 points.
Both Microsoft and BlackBerry saw a negative 0.4 point change during the June quarter, dropping their share of smartphone subscribers to 2.9 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. Symbian held steady, but trailed the pack with a 0.1-percent marketshare.
Since launching larger-screened iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models last year, Apple has gobbled up marketshare from competing manufacturers. Apple sold 47.5 million iPhones over the June quarter, a record-setting performance that drove company revenue to $49.6 billion. That upward trend is expected to continue as the company prepares to launch next-generation handsets in the coming weeks.
According to the latest rumor, Apple's so-called "iPhone 6s" series could debut at a special event on on Sept. 9. The smartphone duo is widely expected to feature a faster "A9" SoC with 2GB of RAM, Force Touch display technology and camera upgrades.
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Utterly clueless bunch.
Especially when you consider Apple has been 'up' in all things, profits, leading technology, beating Google, Samsung and Microsoft at every turn, all along. I'm sure that's what you meant by silly, and I agree too.
In terms of usage, my own websites place iOS devices at the top, with only a small handful of android devices even getting anywhere near iPod levels. You have to fold the entire Samsung line (phones, tablets, smarttvs) to get any number above iPads.
Like, who knows, it could be true that Samsung sells more phones than Apple sells iPhones, but very few of those Samsung phones are actually being used as smartphones, let alone the owners paying money for apps.
Weren't we just told yesterday that apple is loosing smart phone share in the us? The real info here is that none of these data analyzing companies have any clue what there talking about. There morons.
I'd love to agree but I suspect most are manipulators or puppets of manipulators.
... What ever they think will help them screw the average investor to their benefit.
Tim Cook needs to go, right guys? He's destroying the company, right guys? I disagree with his social views and his tweets enrage me, so clearly he isn't fit to lead Apple.
/s
Samsung just cut the retail prices of their top products by $100 each to "improve profitability." Wait, wait... cut prices to improve profitability??
Maybe, it you count flip phones
Maybe, it you count flip phones
But they always count flip phones. You can't let Apple win!
But but but but
Apple is doomed. Research reports say so, Wall St says so.
I guess those anal(yists) will be going around all weekend with their fingers in their ears shouting 'Na na na can't hear you'.
To be honest, I've sort of given up actually getting a clear unbiased review of the market.
Click bait, and we fall for it, hook, line, and sucker.