When measuring usage by handset manufacturer, Apple continued to come in first place by a wide margin, with Samsung coming in second at 26 percent and Motorola, LG, and HTC bringing up the rear with just over 6 percent share each.
152.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (63.8 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in November, up 3 percent since August. Apple ranked as the top OEM with 41.2 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 0.5 percentage points from August). Samsung ranked second with 26 percent market share (up 1.7 percentage points), followed by Motorola with 6.7 percent, LG with 6.5 percent and HTC with 6.4 percent.
Collectively, Apple and Google control 93.1 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, with BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Symbian losing share during the November period.
ComScore's data tracks installed user base rather than new handset sales, which means it is more reflective of real-world usage but slower to respond to shifting market trends than some other studies.
Why is that interesting?
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Why are worldwide statistics more useful to you?
... So understanding what is going on in the US is very useful to the US. It may or may not be useful to other contries.
Why does MacRumors never have worldwide statistics? These US only stats are pretty useless in my opinion.
Apple is a global company, selling products globally, fighting for global market share. As far as I recall, more than 50% of Apple's sales comes from outside the US? And outside the US is where the real growth is happening.
I'm a huge fan of MacRumors, but I think it is too US-centric. (Especially the constant flow of US carrier news about AT&T's, Sprint's & T-mobile's latest plans in the US).
US stats and news are far from useless. But in order to really understand Apple I would love to know much more about how and what Apple is doing in the Middle East? In India? In Scandinavia? In Germany? In Russia? In Canada? In Asia? In Southern America? Globally?
@arn @MacRumors — I'd really like to know your perspective on this?
Why does MacRumors never have worldwide statistics? These US only stats are pretty useless in my opinion.
All the figures are useless there is nothing that we can do with these numbers as a consumer
Because not everybody (including myself) live in the US. It would be nice to have everybody's statistics taken into account to have a clearer view on what is occurring worldwide than one country.
Again, global statistics are reported every quarter.
How would people feel if all the statistics were UK only?
They'd probably feel like they were on a UK website instead of a US one. :D
Why are worldwide statistics more useful to you?
Because not everybody (including myself) live in the US. It would be nice to have everybody's statistics taken into account to have a clearer view on what is occurring worldwide than one country.
How would people feel if all the statistics were UK only?
I really don't understand how anyone can acclaim Apple's iOS going into 2014.
All the rest of your post definitely proves your first sentence. (Emphasis mine.)
:)
Why does MacRumors never have worldwide statistics? These US only stats are pretty useless in my opinion.
As I have been observing the mobile industry for a while, I have to disagree. What is missing is the fact that we can no longer assume that the same phone works in all markets. As a matter of fact Apple now has 3 phones in the market and maybe more comming. I think we have to look at this both from an age perspective as well as from cultural/geographic perspective.
The younger want more social stuff, the older want more productivity/work stuff. I am also seeing a trend where the older are leaning towards bigger (at least fonts if not phones). We are also seeing color, feature and app trends that differ from one culture to another. so what works in the US may not work in China.
So understanding what is going on in the US is very useful to the US. It may or may not be useful to other contries.
I assume this also accounts for secondary market; a lot of people passed their 4 and 4s - still great phones - to their teenage kids or nephews or neices... or even sold it on ebay.
There's a secondary market for Andriod also and people hand down their Androids all the time.
I assume this also accounts for secondary market; a lot of people passed their 4 and 4s - still great phones - to their teenage kids or nephews or neices... or even sold it on ebay.
As I have upgraded the phones have been handed down, so currently
I have a 5S
My Wife has the 4S
My Son has the 3G
And we are ALL happy. :)
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