ComScore: Android has 51.6% market share in US mobile market

By Edwin Kee on 08/01/2012, filed in Home > CellPhones

Before we continue, let me get one thing straight – there are different ways of carrying out a survey, and the interpretation of statistics and results largely depends on the kind of message that you want to convey, in addition to how you “package” it to the audience. Having said that, here are some of the latest bits of information that was picked up by ComScore, where they claim that the Android operating system commands a 51.6% market share in the US mobile market, which is a tiny increase over its previous month. As for Apple’s iOS platform, that is no shrinking violet as iOS has also been growing along at an extremely healthy rate (at the expense of others, I would presume) touching 32.4%. The losers? Those would be the folks over at BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows. Do you think that the mobile platform will eventually whittle down to two players just like a 2-party democratic system? At this point in time, just which side of the mobile operating system divide are you siding with?

Android: Android is the mobile operating system from Google. The software was originally built by a company called Android Inc, that was purchased by Google in 2005. From its modest debuts, Android has become a powerhouse that powers not only smartphones and tablet, but a host of other less high-profile devices and gadgets. Although Android is not a community-driven project, Google does release the source code as open-source under the Apache license. You can follow Ubergizmo on Android with Google Currents.

iOS: was once upon a time called iPhone OS, or "operating system", which is the software that provides all the basic device functionality and is the interface between the hardware and applications. iOS was introduced with the iPhone on January 9 2007, and it was originally not intended to be programmable by third parties. Steve Jobs had envisioned that developers could create Web Apps that would run in the browser. This changed less than one year after when the iPhone SDK (software development kit) was introduced in October 2007. Today, hundreds of thousands of apps have been created for this platform. iPhone OS became iOS on June 2010. Interestingly, both iPhone and iOS were former trademarks of Cisco, that Apple now uses under a license.

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