Recent statistics from the market research firm, comScore, recently revealed that Apple widened its lead over competitors in the US smartphone market over the three month period which ended in May. More importantly, the Cupertino California company gained another 2% in the platform race as Android seemed to have faltered.
Based on comScore’s data, the iPhone accounted for 43.5% of the US smartphone subscriber share between March and May, which is a sequential jump of 1.8%. Coincidentally, Apple seemed to have noticed an identical gain for a three-month period ending in April.
Samsung on the other hand seemed to have held a steady 28.7% share of the market, up 0.15 from February. Other competitors such as Motorola and HTC rounded out the top five but saw their market share decline by 0.1%, 0.2% and 0.3% respectively.
As one might expect, the Android operating system continued to remain at the top of the smartphone OS heap in May but did end up dipping 0.7% to end the period at 52.1%. Apple’s iOS operating system ended up placing second after eating up market share from all rivals including Microsoft, Blackberry and Symbian.
The latest numbers from comScore reflect a changing tide that was pushed by a large demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets. In the crucial holiday quarter, the iPhone 6 models seemed to have helped iPhone sales rise to a record-breaking 74.5 million units. The performance for the device continued into March where it ended up surpassing historical post-holiday slowdowns with 61 million unit sales.
We’ll have to wait and see how the trend continues.
Source: comScore
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