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Chart of the day: Whose lunch has Android been eating?
May 5, 2013: 6:56 PM ETIn the U.S., it's everybody's but Apple's according to comScore.
Source: Asymco.com from comScore data. Click to enlarge.
FORTUNE -- It's often been said that Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market has come chiefly out of the hides of Research in Motion's (BBRY) BlackBerry and Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone, but nothing shows this quite as clearly as Horace Dediu's charts at Asymco.com.
Not that Apple (AAPL) hasn't been hurt by the success of Google's (GOOG) mobile platform. Some of the customers who bought Android phones are customers who didn't buy iPhones.
For more on these market shifts, see Dediu's Measuring Platform Churn.
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Apple's lead over Samsung in the U.S. widened in April
But Samsung isn't falling behind the iPhone as fast as it was in February or March.
FORTUNE -- Google's (GOOG) Android, at 52%, took the largest share of U.S. smartphone sales in the three month period (Jan. - Mar.) covered by comScore's report Friday. But it managed to lose 1.4 percentage points sequentially, while Apple (AAPL), at 39%, gained 2.7.
In the Apple vs. Samsung competition, Apple widened its U.S. lead, which MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 4, 2013 10:56 AM ET -
Chart of the day: The rise and fall of Android in the U.S.
The arc of grey bars tells the story of Android in the second largest smartphone market
FORTUNE -- According to the chart above, drawn from comScore data and posted Friday by Asymco's Horace Dediu, sales of Google (GOOG) Android smartphones in the U.S. peaked in December 2011.
Sales of Apple (AAPL) iPhones, by contrast, continue to grow in the U.S. Dediu attributes that to broader distribution (three of the four major U.S. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 6, 2013 6:28 AM ET -
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 -
Chart of the day: Amazon beats Samsung in U.S. tablet sales
According to ComScore, Kindle Fire outsells Samsung's Galaxy tablets 4 to 1 in the U.S.
FORTUNE -- One of the surprises in ComScore's chart-packed Mobile Future in Focus "webinar" Wednesday was the relative sizes of the orange Amazon (AMZN) and red Samsung bands in the chart above.
Apple (AAPL) maintained its position as the No. 1 tablet manufacturer, but in battle for dominance among the Android tablet makers in the U.S. market -- MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 21, 2013 7:01 AM ET -
Chart of the day: U.S. smartphone market 2005-2012
It's increasingly a two-platform race -- at least for now
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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 -
ComScore: Android is losing ground against Apple in U.S.
Sales of Apple's iPhone have moved further ahead of Samsung's offerings
FORTUNE -- Two new pieces of data for Wall Street to ignore as Apple's (AAPL) share price continues to fall:
According to a press release issued Wednesday by ComScore, Apple's iPhone moved ahead of Samsung and gained ground on Google's (GOOG) Android in the U.S. market during the three month period that ended in January.
Android is still the top smartphone platform with MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 6, 2013 2:01 PM ET -
Pictures from the smartphone wars: And then there were two
Apple's iOS and Google's Android now control 90% of the global smartphone market
FORTUNE: Hard on the heels of Gartner's Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales report Wednesday, IDC and comScore both released colorful bar graphs Thursday representing their view of the current state of the smartphone wars -- the world war (top) from IDC, and U.S. war (bottom) from comScore.
A few observations:
The extent to which the smartphone wars have become a two-man MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 14, 2013 2:50 PM ET -
comScore: Android U.S. sales slow. The iPhone holds steady
New subscriptions for Android phones have been falling in the U.S. for four months
FORTUNE -- Drilling down into data released Friday by comScore, Asymco's Horace Dediu spots two interesting trends:
The rate at which mobile phone owners are switching from feature phones to smartphones in the U.S. has fallen off dramatically, to 300,000 per week in the three-month period ending in April from 1.5 million per week in the November survey.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 4, 2012 9:37 AM ET
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Today in Tech: Kindle Fire owns 54% of Android tablet market
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* According to a new report from comScore, Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire now accounts for nearly 54% of all Android tablets in the U.S. Also: Amazon blew away estimates with its latest quarterly earnings: $13.2 billion in revenues and $130 million in net income. (Electronista and CNNMoney)
* Zynga (ZNGA) topped estimates MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 27, 2012 8:45 AM ET
