iOS in the US is growing faster than Android

The latest study of the American smartphone market demonstrates the weak growth dynamics of the Android platform and the good pace of the “Apple” OS. 

According to comScore, in the fourth quarter of 2012, Apple not only retained, but also increased its own share in the American smartphone market by 2%. Now the “apple” company has 36.3% of the market. Samsung is breathing down her neck, whose dynamics allowed her to grab 2.3% of the market in October-December. Now the Koreans have a segment of 21%. 

HTC and Motorola with shares of 10.2% and 9.1%, respectively, only lost in the 4th quarter. Moreover, the Taiwanese company missed as much as 1.8% of the market. As for Motorola, its losses were not so significant – 0.7%. 

New devices and the success of the Nexus 4 helped LG improve its performance by a negligible 0.5% at Christmas. Now its share in the American smartphone market is 7.1%. 

As for the platform market in the USA, Google dominates here. Its share is 53.4% (the dynamics for the quarter is 0.9%). Apple still has the same 36.3% (2% growth). BlackBerry continued to lose its market at the end of 2012. In three months, she lost 2%. Its share was 6.4%. Microsoft, despite the release of new devices on Windows Phone 8, also showed a drop of 0.7% to 2.9%. 

Yes, according to the same comScore report, the number of smartphone users in the States has reached 125.9 million people.