Google’s Android operating system continues to rank as the dominant platform in the market for sophisticated mobile-phone devices known as smartphones.
Android controls 41.8 percent of the market, up 5.4 percentage points from the previous three-month period ending in April, comScore reported after analyzing the three-month period ending in July.
Meanwhile, iPhone juggernaut Apple – the proprietor of the iOS mobile operating system – increased its market share to 27 percent, up 1 percentage point from the previous three-month period tracked.
Research in Motion, the struggling manufacturer of the BlackBerry product line, ranked third with 21.7 percent market share, followed by Microsoft (5.7 percent) and Symbian (1.0 percent), Nokia’s operating system. RIM’s market share had been 25.7 percent in the three-month period ending in April.
iPhones and other smartphones are quickly replacing more traditional mobile devices with few frills. In the three-month period ending in July, 82.2 million people in the United States owned smartphones, according to comScore.
In its second-quarter earnings last month, AT&T – the second-largest U.S. mobile operator – revealed that about half (49.9 percent) of its 68.4 million postpaid customers now have smartphones.
