Apple, Google Dominate U.S. Smartphone Market With 78% Share
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Apple Inc. and Google Inc.’s Android consolidated their control of the U.S. smartphone market in the three months ended January, with three out of four devices using their software, ComScore Inc. said today.
Apple software was found in 29.5 percent of U.S. smartphones, on average, in the period, up from 28.1 percent in the prior three months, Reston, Virginia-based researcher ComScore said in a statement today. Smartphones using Google’s Android had 48.6 percent market share, up 2.3 percent from the prior three months. Research In Motion Ltd. saw its share drop to 15.2 percent from 17.2 percent.