Man The Guns: Android’s Marketshare Dropped In The US

Color us surprised: in ComScore’s latest report, Android dropped in marketshare. It’s nothing major, only an itty bitty two tenths of a point, but it’s still a change from Android’s massive growth over the last year. In March of 2012, Android held 51% of the market, whereas now it only holds 50.8%. Again, this isn’t a huge change, but it’s definitely something we weren’t anticipating.

Android’s biggest competitor, Apple and the iOS platform, moved forward with a 2.2% increase over the last few months. We’re not worried that Apple will be taking the lead anytime soon, but Android may have already reached its peak. The next couple of months will prove critical for Google and Android, and hopefully we’ll see more growth than ever come years end.

ComScore via Engadget

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msnight04 7 pts

 amdestined I thought the same thing at first too by just looking at the chart. Reading the article though, it states that Android has lost market share since this time last year. In reality, that chart should have never been placed in this article.

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mobilephonesfan 5 pts

 msnight04 Wow, between your misreading of the facts and this article's misleading (:ahem: link-bait :ahem:) title, it's hard to know where to begin.

 

You wrote:

 

A. "Reading the article though, it states that Android has lost market share since this time last year."

 

This article says no such thing. The writer specifies that the 'itty bitty two tenths of a point' drop took place between March and April of *this* year.

 

He mentions nothing specific about Android's market share during 2011, tho' he does make a somewhat offhand, generalized reference to 'Android’s massive growth over the last year'...in other words, suggesting this drop in share is the first over that period of time. (n.b.: I'm not saying that's true -- merely trying to clarify the point.)

 

B. "In reality, that chart should have never been placed in this article."

 

The chart is a verbatim portion of ComScore's report. And unless you can provide solid reason to question their figures, this chart is perfectly apt to the discussion of current, per-platform market share. Any confusion about it's veracity or value here would appear to be your own.

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msnight04 7 pts

 mobilephonesfan This was my bad. Where the article states, "In March 2012...", I initially read that to say "In March 2011...". This is also why I made the claim the chart was not needed. With my original thought of the article discussing last year, the chart would not have made much sense as it didn't discuss 2011. As I now realize my mistake, I apologize for my terrible comment previously.

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