Apple’s iOS Gains Share in Fourth Quarter as Android Declines
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Apple Inc.’s iOS smartphone operating system gained ground in the U.S. in the final quarter of 2013 as the share of the market served by the platforms of Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and BlackBerry Ltd. shrank.
The market share of Google’s Android operating system slipped 0.3 percentage point to 51.5 percent as Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to end the year with almost 42 percent of the market, ComScore Inc. said in a statement today. BlackBerry, which recently hired Foxconn Group to build its devices, fell