Wednesday, October 5, 2011

comScore August 2011 report is out -- Android keeps growing.

comScore's August 3-month US smartphone report shows Android continues to grow rapidly (14.7% over 3 months), mostly at the expense of RIM. Apple grew, too, but not by much (2.6%), and Microsoft seems to have stabilized, shrinking just one 0.1 percentage point (= -1.7%).

Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Aug. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending May 2011
Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
May-11 Aug-11 Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A
Google 38.1% 43.7% 5.6
Apple 26.6% 27.3% 0.7
RIM 24.7% 19.7% -5.0
Microsoft 5.8% 5.7% -0.1
Symbian 2.1% 1.8% -0.3
via comScore


For some perspective.  Obviously, the big loser here is RIM.  At some point in 2012, will RIM become the 4th platform behind Google, Apple and Microsoft?

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