ComScore: Apple beats Samsung in US, Android top OS

Just a few days ago ComScore gave some detailed breakdown of the Smartphone users for the three months period between January to April 2013. This trimester period ended in April and this applies only to the US markets where the report gave the details of performance by every manufacturer and the operating systems.

From this report, the Apple manufacturer was the one leading on top with 39.2% of the US market and it was followed by the Samsung with 22.0%. Apple actually managed to beat Samsung in the race and emerged as the leading top manufacturer.

However, the results did not actually include the sales of the Galaxy S4 which was the majority since it was released later on by the end of April after the coming up of some of these figures for the report.

Other manufacturers in the 3 months race average performance

As Apple was leading and it was followed closely by Samsung, HTC and Motorola were actually fighting for the third position with a very minor difference between them. HCT had the 8.9% of the market while Motorola had 8.3%. The difference between the performances of the two companies was only 0.6% showing the great competition between the two.

Apple managed to have an increase of 1.4 percentage points from the previous trimester that ended in January 2013. Samsung only managed to increase by 0.6 percentage points while all the rest of the manufacturers reduced in their market share if compared with the previous period. The market share for these others shrunk even though there was no detailed data on the decrease by the ComScore from their report.

What about the operating systems?

Within this three months period, the Android operating system emerged the top with 52.0% of the market. It however faced a reduction from 52.3% for the previous similar period of three months. The operating system that took the second place was the Apple's iOS with 39.2 following the top operating system. The Apple's iOS managed to have increase by 1.4 percentage points if the performance is compared with the last period of three months.

The third position was captured by the BlackBerry which had 5.1% of the total subscribers even though it also lost by 0.8percentage points from the previous period. The last in this race was the Windows Phone which managed 3.0% of the total subscribers even though it also went down by only 0.1 percentage points.

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