Apple's Gains Is Android's Loss

Apple proves to be the smartphone leader in the US yet again, according to ComScore’s January report Apple currently owns 37.8% of smartphone shipments with a gain of 3.5% from previous quarter in the US followed by Samsung with 21.4%. Analysts are continuously being proved wrong by Apple with record breaking profits and record breaking sales, yet Apple’s stock is plummeting to an all time low lately.

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 Apple’s iOS also has seen an increase in its market share at the expense of Android for the first time since a while now. Apple’s iOS currently has a share of 37.8% in the US market with an increase of 3.5% and its rival, Google’s Android OS has a share of 52.3% with a decrease of 1.3%. Apart from iOS all other major smartphone OSes have witness a decrease in market share this quarter with the biggest looser being BlackBerry.

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The only surprising thing about ComScore’s reports is that most major carriers in US reported more than 66% of smartphones being activated on their networks to be iPhones but ComScore report does not suggest the same.