November comScore Results Show Android Growing Faster Than iOS, Samsung/Apple Still Dominating

The statistics for the three month period ending in November were released today by comScore. While nothing much has changed, the gap between the duopoly of Samsung and Apple and the other three in the top five is growing fast. Samsung grew 1.2 percentage up to 26.9%, while Apple grew even more to 18.5%, up 1.4 points. Everyone else has dropped 0.4 to 0.8 points, sadly. With the low supply of Nexus 4′s, LG can’t really catch up. Hopefully CES will bring the other manufacturers some more prosperity.

On the software side of things, it seems that Android is growing significantly faster than iOS in this period of time. While iOS grew 0.7 points to 35%, Android grew 1.1 points to a whopping 53.7%. Every other software maker fell behind, all under 8%. RIM dropped a whole point, which is a massive drop.

Do you feel sympathy for those who are losing? Do you like the duopoly that’s currently going on? Or do you think other companies are still in the game? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!

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TheDark_Knight 77 pts

Lawsuits or not, Google was smart to get into the smartphone game early.

NickKathrein 7 pts

At this point if your OS isn't established like IOS and Android your in real trouble. The major apps are on these 2 platforms and to get these top companies to make an app for any other phone OS is going to require that company to really love something about that new phone OS.  Maybe Win Phone 8 will slowly build up apps but hard to believe any of these other phone OS's will get any support.  We are well past the point of no return with Apps.  I would bet that the top apps on IOS  will focus on improving their app for Android so it's as good as the one on IOS.  They will focus on making their apps for the 7 and 10 inch Android tablets thanks to the success of the nexus tablets.  Looking at the numbers it would be foolish not to improve the quality of the Android apps to be equal to IOS on both phone and Tablet. Android will really pick up market share this year on the tablet front.  It doesn't make sense to put their resources into making phone apps for new phone OS's. My 2 cents