Posted on 07/05/2015 11:50:00 AM PDT by Swordmaker
comScore has released data from comScore MobiLens and Mobile Metrix, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry for May 2015. Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 43.5 percent OEM market share.
Smartphone OEM Market Share
189.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (76.8 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in May.* Apple ranked as the top OEM with 43.5 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 1.8 percentage points from February). Samsung ranked second with 28.7 percent market share (up 0.1 percentage points), followed by LG with 8.2 percent, Motorola with 4.9 percent and HTC with 3.5 percent.
* Beginning with April 2015 data, MobiLens Plus includes an improved sample weighting methodology that incorporates additional controls for smartphone and tablet populations. This enhancement resulted in a step change increase in the total mobile population but had minimal impact on key market share dynamics. The 3-month average ending May 2015 was calculated by averaging April and May’s MobiLens Plus numbers with March’s numbers from the traditional MobiLens product in order to preserve the 3-month rolling trend in our public monthly reporting.
Smartphone Platform Market Share
Android ranked as the top smartphone platform in May with 52.1 percent market share (down 0.7 percentage points), followed by Apple with 43.5 percent (up 1.8 percentage points from February), Microsoft with 3 percent (down 0.5 percentage points), BlackBerry with 1.3 percent (down 0.5 percentage points) and Symbian holding steady with 0.1 percent.
Source: comScore, Inc.
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If you make a great smart phone, people will buy.
Just received a Blackberry Classic last week. Amazing phone and OS. Wifey has an Android and both of the kids have an iPhone. I would not swap my Classic for all 3 of theirs.
Top Smartphone OEMs -- I expect to see company names, which each one aggregating their various offerings.
Top Smartphone Platforms -- I expect to see PLATFORM NAMES, not more company names. WTF?
"Android" is a platform.Seriously, WTF? Are journalists now so completely ignorant of the language that they can't tell software from the company who makes it?
"Apple" is NOT a platform.
"Microsoft" is NOT a platform.
"Blackberry" is NOT a platform.
"Symbian" is a platform.
Years ago my dear, late mother-in-law, working as an admin assistant, used Word Perfect for Windows. She constantly referred to it as "Microsoft".
MIL: "Hi, I'm having trouble with Microsoft. Can you help me?"It got to be a running family joke. THIS WAS IN 1989. That was 26 years ago, she could be excused. There is no excuse today.
Me: "Sure, Mom, have you been talking with their tech support or something?"
MIL: "No, no, it's this darn Control key, it won't do what I want."
Me: "Oh, okay, what program are you running?"
MIL: "Microsoft."
Me: "Microsoft WHAT? Word? I thought you liked Word Perfect..."
MIL: "Microsoft. I'm running Microsoft."
...
'Scuse my rant.
I examined your rant to see if I could find the root of your problem and have discerned what it is. You have made a basic mistake.
You assumed that "journalists" were educated in anything other than journalism. . . that journalists understand what they are writing about.
That's akin to assuming that a modern Liberal teacher understands the subject they are expected to teach!
My dear Freepfriend, that is NOT at all the purpose of getting a journalism or education degree. . . the purpose of each of those degrees is supposedly to learn how to do those things, not at all about learning anything about WHAT they are going to with do them, or the subjects they are going to write about or teach!
Silly me, what was I thinking -- that a journalist could be expected to differentiate between a tire and a wheel, between a motor and an engine, between a software product and a software company, between their a$$ and a hole in the ground....
Thank you for setting me straight. :-)
Ah ‘twas but a momentary lapse due to the lateness of the hour or the heaviness brought on due to the heavy acrid odor of gunpowder in the air from fireworks, no doubt.
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