Google Android Takes Majority Share of Smartphone Market

Google’s share of the US smartphone market (primarily representing the Android platform) climbed 7% between the 3 months ending November 2011 and 3 months ending February 2012, increasing its smartphone platform share to 50.1% in that time period, according to comScore MobiLens data released in April. Google’s share has now grown more than 50% in the past year. Apple also saw a rise in market share, up 5% to 30.2%. Both Google and Apple gained at the expense of RIM, which lost 19% to 13.4% share, and Microsoft, which dropped 25% of its share, down to 3.9%. (more…)