Google's U.S. market share continues to grow against Apple, but at a much slower pace
Data: ComScore. Charts: PED
"In case you needed more proof that Android is walloping iOS," writes Steve Kovach in Thursday's Business Insider, "ComScore's three-month report on mobile subscribers (ending in November) is out."
He points out, as others have, that Apple's (AAPL) smartphone market share grew a bit, from 27.3% to 28.7% over the past three months. But, he writes, "Google's Android platform is still crushing it with 46.9% of the smartphone market in the U.S."
But if you take a broader look at comScore's data over the past 12 months, the race is not quite as one-sided as Kovach et al. would have it.
Over the past year, Apple's market share has grown slowly but steadily month over month. Google's (GOOG) rate of market share growth, by contrast, has dropped sharply, from a high of 20% last January to a new low of 1.3% in comScore's November data.
In fact, in the report that Kovach offers as more proof that Android is "still walloping" iOS, Apple's market share actually grew faster month over month than Google's.
UPDATE: Asymco's Horace Dediu has taken a deeper look at comScore's data. You can read his analysis here.
Source: Compuware APM
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A comScore survey of iPad owners finds some surprises in their pockets
Source: comScore
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comScore numbers, click to enlarge
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If Apple sold 1 million Verizon iPhones at launch, it doesn't show in ComScore's data
Click to enlarge. Data: ComScore
If you look very closely at the Feb. 2011 data in the chart at right you will see slight uptick in the green line that represents Apple's (AAPL) share of the U.S. smartphone market.
It's a subtle change. You might have to enlarge the chart (by clicking) to see it. It reflects, MORE
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Nokia-Microsoft smartphone mockup. Photo: Engadget
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The upward surge of Android continues into 2011 where it passed BlackBerry for the first time in comScore data.
comScore, click to enlarge
Today's comScore MobiLens market share numbers show that Google's (GOOG) Android continues to grow its lead in smartphone market share in the US.
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