Tuesday, August 30

One Chart: Why Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. are Teaming-Up Against Google

Here's last year's prediction, made back when Android had under 25% of the market and was smaller than the iPhone. Below are the latest comScore market share figures, which have Google's Android up 5.4% in three months and rapidly closing in on 50% of the U.S. smartphone market.

Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Jul. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2011
Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
Apr-11Jul-11Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers100.0%100.0%N/A
Google36.4%41.8%5.4
Apple26.0%27.0%1.0
RIM25.7%21.7%-4.0
Microsoft6.7%5.7%-1.0
Symbian2.3%1.9%-0.4
Look no further than above for an explanation of the strange bedfellows which recently united against Google.

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