Friday, June 1, 2012

comScore April 2012: RIM continuing to shrink.

Until the next iteration of Blackberry OS comes out (if it ever does), there just is no hope for RIM.  comScore shows RIM still dropping.

Top Smartphone Platforms
3 Month Avg. Ending Apr. 2012 vs. 3 Month Avg. Ending Jan. 2012
Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Ages 13+
Source: comScore MobiLens
Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers
Jan-12 Apr-12 Point Change
Total Smartphone Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A
Google 48.6% 50.8% 2.2
Apple 29.5% 31.4% 1.9
RIM 15.2% 11.6% -3.6
Microsoft 4.4% 4.0% -0.4
Symbian 1.5% 1.3% -0.2

Perhaps some good news for Microsoft: when you look at the month-to-month change: April showed a 0.1 percentage point increase from 3.9%.  Also, Google's Android had a 0.2 percentage point drop from comScore's March numbers.  At the 95% confidence level however, the margin of error is about 0.57 percentage points, so these tiny changes may not exist.


You know though, Samsung Galaxy S-III is extremely popular and difficult to get.  With sales officially opening up this past month, there is going to be a huge surge of GS-III phones, and I know many people were holding off for the GS-III.

Can the GS-III continue Android's growth?

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