Every time we see statistics about the mobile world, they’re a bit different. Even in the same month, two different reports will have two sets of information. However, comScore seems to be the standard these days, and their numbers for the three month period ending in January are up. As you can see, Android took a small hit while iOS is still growing at… Read more
The December 3 month period comScore numbers and in, and it’s more of the same thing. In the software part of it, Android rose 0.9 points to 53.4%, while iOS rose a whole 2 points to 36.3%. Blackberry dropped 2 points, but that might very well change in the next few months. Sadly, Windows Phone dropped 0.7 points to only 2.9%. Symbian stayed constant at… Read more
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… Read more
comScore has once again released data pertaining to a three month period ending in October, showing us the distribution numbers for both manufacturer and mobile OS. Once again, Samsung is on top at 26.3%. Apple actually jumped ahead of LG to 17.8%, probably due to the iPhone 5 launch. It’s surprising that there wasn’t a bigger boost as other charts have… Read more
This comScore is over a 3 month period ending in August, which is before the iPhone 5 launch, so they are a little irrelevant at the moment. Still, the numbers show the state of the phone ecosystem a month ago. As you can imagine, Google is in first place with a growth of 1.7%, up to 52.6%. Apple had a 2.4% growth up to 34.3%. RIM dropped another 3.1%… Read more
Nothing has really changed here. Android is still on top, with a 1.4 boost since April. It is now in the lead at 52.2% of market share in the US. Apple is at second, with 33.4%. RIM took a 2.1 point hit and is now at 9.5%, while poor Microsoft is at 3.6%. We want Windows Phone to succeed, but it just isn’t working out great. With OEMs, it’s… Read more
For those of you out there hoping for Google+ to continue growing into a true Twitter and Facebook competitor, there is a bit of good news this morning as traffic has surged in the past nine months. According to ComScore, the number of unique visitors to Google+ has increased by 66% over the last nine months, with 110.7 million unique visitors worldwide… Read more
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… Read more
Surprise surprise, the March smartphone market totals are in and you’ll never guess who continues to reign number one in the US market. Android is still top dog jumping almost four full points to 51% of new American smartphone buyers. Apple’s still riding its own wave jumping to 30.7% giving the two top platforms close to 80% marketshare. As seems to… Read more
While Andy Rubin may have dreamed of a far different size marketshare for Google’s Android platform by 2012, the Kindle Fire continues to make waves. The latest data from comScore shows that in February of 2012, the Kindle Fire made up 54.4 percent of the market in Android tablets. Those numbers were up from 41.8 percent in January and 29.4 percent in… Read more
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