HTC (7.4 percent), Motorola (6.9 percent) and LG (6.7 percent) rounded up the top five US phone vendors, though neither was able to grow its share compared to the three-month period ended May 2013. Even without the new iPhones, Apple zoomed past second-ranked Samsung which grabbed just 24.3 percent market share despite the launch of its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone. smartphone subscribers, up 1.5 percentage points from May. In terms of individual phone vendors Apple emerged victorious, its iPhone accounting for 40.7 percent of U.S. In the meantime, BlackBerry lost 0.8 percentage points in subscribers share and Microsoft’s Windows Phone gained a meager 0.2 percentage point share. At the same time, Google’s Android declined, going from 52.4 in May to 51.6 percent of the U.S. iOS went from 39.2 percent in May 2013 to 40.7 percent share in August. Together, Android and the iPhone took more than 92 percent of the U.S. What’s really interesting about Apple’s growth is that iOS outsold Android without the new iPhones. The iPhone gained 1.3 percentage points ranking as the top smartphone vendor in the United States with a cool 40.7 percent share of the nation’s smartphone subscribers.Īlthough Google’s Android led with a dominating 51.6 percent share, its slice of the smartphone platform market actually shrank by 0.8 percentage points. Breaking all of the preconceived notions about the cyclicality of the iPhone, a new survey shows Apple’s iOS gaining on Google’s Android and the embattled BlackBerry during a three-month period ended August 2013.
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