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Chart: Android continues to lose ground to Apple in U.S.
Of the 10.4 million new smartphone users between Nov. and Feb., 85% went to Apple.
FORTUNE -- One way to view the U.S. smartphone data released Thursday by comScore (spreadsheets below) is to look at the total number of new subscribers in the 3-month period covered (November 2012 to February 2013) and compare the number of users who bought Apple (AAPL) iPhones with those who chose Google (GOOG) Android phones.
Total new MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 5, 2013 7:13 AM ET -
4 lessons for Apple in the Facebook phone
As Apple prepares iOS 7, it could stand to learn a few things from Facebook Home.
FORTUNE -- Now we know: The Facebook Phone is neither a phone, nor an operating system. Instead, Zuckerberg unveiled a downloadable collection of apps, available April 12, that will be supported on select Android phones to start, including the $99 HTC First, the first device to come pre-loaded with it. Home, as the whole kit MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 5, 2013 6:42 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, Facebook, Facebook Home, Facebook Messenger, Google, HTC, iOS, iOS 7, iPhone, Jony Ive, Mark Zuckerberg -
Mark Zuckerberg: Why we don't want to build a phone
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview, the Facebook chief talks to Fortune about Apple, China, and what his personal challenge is for the year.
FORTUNE -- A week before Mark Zuckerberg announced the "Facebook phone," he spoke extensively to Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel about how he's reinvented Facebook to address the huge audience of customers who access the social network on their smartphones. (The complete story of Facebook's reboot will appear MORE
Jessi Hempel, writer - Apr 4, 2013 3:30 PM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, Facebook, Facebook Home, Facebook IPO, Facebook mobile, Facebook phone, Google, iPhone, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Mobile -
Report: Americans spend 2:38 hours a day glued to their tablets and smartphones
Only 31 minutes is spent surfing the Web. Apps take up the rest of that time.
FORTUNE -- The iPhone was barely a year old and Apple (AAPL) had not yet launched the App Store when Flurry Analytics began measuring mobile usage and helping developers sell ads.
Today Flurry measures the activity of more than 1 billion active mobile iOS and Android devices a month, and to celebrate its fifth anniversary Wednesday MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 3, 2013 7:28 PM ET -
Apple's growing dominance of the mobile Web
Against all odds, Apple's iOS is outpacing Google's Android in Web usage.
FORTUNE -- Two data points that counter the prevailing wisdom on Wall Street -- at least as reflected in its valuation -- that Apple (AAPL) is toast.
The latest report from NetApplications, posted Monday, shows Safari's browser share of the mobile Web growing to 61.79% in March, up from 55.41% one month earlier.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 3, 2013 7:34 AM ET
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What Samsung really needs to beat Apple
Korean electronics giant Samsung is nipping at Apple's heels, yes, but it is still missing one crucial element.
FORTUNE -- The technology press loves a good narrative. And among the most beloved narratives is a good horserace. Two rivals striving to better each other with new products or new features. The archetypal tech rivalry, between Microsoft and Apple not only lasted for decades, it helped make Silicon Valley what it is today.
During MORE
Kevin Kelleher - Mar 28, 2013 7:26 AM ETPosted in: AAPL, Android, Apple, Brand, Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4, Google, iPhone 5, Kevin Kelleher, rivalry, Samsung, Samsung Electronics, smartphone, Sony -
Today in Tech: Is Google working on a smartwatch, too?
Also: Apple's internal design teams play nice; Samsung guns for low-end smartphone market.
Google's Android unit reportedly building a smart watch [THE VERGE]
According to a recent report from The Financial Times, Google might also be getting into the smartwatch game. And unlike Glass, which was developed in the company's experimental X Lab, the watch (not pictured above) is said to be under development by the Android unit, possibly indicating that Google sees it MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 22, 2013 3:26 PM ET -
Chart of the day: U.S. smartphone market 2005-2012
It's increasingly a two-platform race -- at least for now
Click to enlarge.
FORTUNE -- ComScore released dozens of useful slides in its Mobile Future in Focus "webinar" Wednesday. The one above shows that not once since the iPhone was introduced in 2007 has Apple's (AAPL) platform had the largest share of the U.S. smartphone market.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 20, 2013 5:57 PM ET -
Larry Page shuffles management, product groups at Google
Google appoints a new Android leader and shrinks its product groups from seven to five.
FORTUNE -- In my recent feature on Larry Page's successful tenure as CEO of Google, I noted that Page had presided over a remarkably stable management team.
That was then. In a matter of two days, Page shook up the "L-team" (short for Larry's team), shrinking Google's product groups to five from seven.
On Wednesday, Page announced that MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - Mar 14, 2013 3:29 PM ETPosted in: Android, Andy Rubin, Chromebook, Google, Google L-Team, Jeff Huber, Larry Page, Susan Wojcicki -
Today in Tech: With Galaxy 4, Samsung aims to take down iPhone
Also: Apple goes on the defensive; Twitter prepping music app?
Samsung targets Galaxy 4 at Apple's core iPhone market [BLOOMBERG]
The debut of Samsung's marquee smartphone at Radio City Music Hall tomorrow night lets Samsung bring the fight directly to Apple's strongest market. The South Korean company is relying on an advertising blitz and cutting-edge features, potentially including a snazzier camera and eye-tracking capabilities, to generate the kind of buzz associated with Apple's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 14, 2013 3:30 AM ET
