Apple has further increased its lead as the top smartphone manufacturer in the US, the iPhone increasing its market share by one point from 41.6% in Dec 2014 to 42.6% in March 2015, according to comScore. There was no change in the rankings, with Samsung in second place at 28.3% – a fall of 1.4% – followed by LG, Motorola and HTC.
Android remained the most popular platform, with 52.4% of the market against iOS at 42.6%. Windows, Blackberry and Symbian were all also-rans, totalling just 5% between them.
comScore also reported the top 15 smartphone apps …
Looking at iOS and Android installations combined, Facebook was the most popular app, installed on 69.5% of smartphones, YouTube second at 55.9%. Other popular apps include Google Search, Google Maps, Facebook Messenger, Pandora, Gmail and Instagram.
Smartphone ownership in the US increased by 3% to 187.5M people.
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1) You’ll get a different picture when putting a ‘Profits’ column next to that table.
2) With 320M in the US, this 187M is an incredible large number.
3) Wow, I don’t have any of the apps mentioned installed.
What has profits got to do with this article?
— “What has profits got to do with this article?”
It doesn’t have anything to do with THIS article… it was suggestion to look at other things OUTSIDE this article.
It’s good to have a broad overview of a topic.
The smartphone industry has many facets: market share, profits, usage share, average selling price, etc.
BTW… welcome to the internet… people say all sorts of things in the comments. Get used to it :)
Profits have absolutely nothing to do with these numbers.
You’re right… profit doesn’t have anything to do with these numbers.
It’s an additional topic that should be explored.
Don’t focus too much on ONE aspect of anything… you might miss something.
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Apple has done tremendously well in the last two quarters after introducing iPhone 6 and announcing the Watch at the same time. The buffer time in between helped keep the momentum of sales and interest for the product intact. Well, Steve Jobs must be really proud of the boys.!!
But, but… all those billions of cheap, knock-off Android devices sold in 24hr store fronts in downtown Manhattan and all over the world still make Android the winner! Right? Apple is the loser! Right?
Well said, Android still covers the more users than iOS, but Apple own iOS and takes all profit in his pocket, and Android runs in all the smartphones making by other companies, like Samsung, Sony, HTC, LG and many more. So if you are trying to accumulate whole work together and the US alone, then US will be a loser, in the same way iOS will be a loser if you find difference like this.
Compare usage statistics and iOS is the entire ballgame. Android barely even registers.
What has (a) profit and (b) usage stats got to do with anything on this article?
It hasn’t.
So the purpose of mentioning those things are what exactly?
The surprising thing for me with these numbers is that HTC is so low. This is completely anecdotal but I have been seeing a lot of HTC devices in the wild lately and thought they had carved out a larger market share.
Please, Apple fanboys, remember that while it’s true that there are a lot of crappy, cheap Android devices for sale, not everyone who owns an Android owns it because they “can’t afford an iPhone”. Many of us have used iOS and just actually prefer the platform for any number of reasons. A $700 dollar Android phone is no cheaper than a $700 iPhone.
You are exactly right. Regardless of if someone has a $700 iPhone or a $700 Android phone, most people around the world pay for their phone monthly as part of their contract, which is why owning an expensive phone isn’t an indication of wealth. If it was they would be as rare as hens teeth, but the fact of the matter is every man and his dog has one.
I own an iPhone for the brainless-ease-of-use and re$ale value.
The resale value of Apple stuff is incredible
The funny is with your 700$ android device will go down to half price after 1 month of release, because it’s material cheap with low manufacturing quality.
However, the price is not everything at all while the platform, quality and services are the big deals!