Another Study Shows iPhone Market Share is Dropping

From DailyTech: Market research firms Canalys and the NPD Group claim that Google's Android has passed the iPhone in U.S. market share. Apple has denied this and CEO Steve Jobs has gone as far as to suggest that some of his competitors (obviously inferring Google) are lying about their activation numbers.

Well Apple got some good news -- market research firm Comscore is reporting that Apple still leads Google in the U.S. market. The bad news for Apple is that its market share is dropping according to the report, and Google is posting big gains.

The report says that RIM (makers of the BlackBerry smartphones), Apple, and Microsoft lost 1.8, 1.3, and 2.2 percent U.S. smartphone market share perspectively. Google, by contrast, gained 5.0 percent market share. Google is now at 17 percent market share, compared to RIM's 39.3 and Apple's 23.8.

In the U.S. mobile phone market, Samsung increased its market share by 1 percent, probably thanks in part to the success of its various Galaxy S smartphone variants. RIM also gained 0.6 percent in terms of total hardware. LG, Motorola, and Nokia lost 0.6, 1.8, and 0.3 percent market share respectively.

The Comscore study also claims that only (approximately) one in five users today listens to music or plays games on their mobile phone. It claims that only (approximately) one in three users browses the web from their mobile phone in the U.S.

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