Samsung may be the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer it remains a distant second to Apple in the U.S. smartphone market. According to market research firm Comscore, Apple took nearly 42% of the U.S. smartphone market in the last three months of 2013 with Samsung following with a 26.1% share. Motorola, LG and HTC closed out the top five but showing no growth.
The number of Americans using smartphones continued to increase. Market penetration hit 65.2% with some 156 million people (roughly half of all Americans) owning smartphones in the U.S. in December 2013. Market penetration increased 3.2% from September.
| Top Smartphone OEMs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total U.S. Smartphone Subscribers Age 13+ | |||
| Share (%) of Smartphone Subscribers | |||
| Sep-13 | Dec-13 | Point Change | |
| Total Mobile Subscribers | 100 | 100 | N/A |
| Apple | 40.60 | 41.80 | 1.2 |
| Samsung | 24.90 | 26.10 | 1.2 |
| Motorola | 6.80 | 6.70 | -0.1 |
| LG | 6.60 | 6.60 | 0 |
| HTC | 7.10 | 5.70 | -1.4 |
Android remains the top mobile operating system in the U.S. with a 51.5% market share. Apple came in second and was followed by BlackBerry (still at 3.4%), Windows Phone (3.1%) and Symbian (0.2%). All operating systems, except Apple, lost market share. BlackBerry was the biggest loser, losing 0.4% over the past three months. Android, still comfortably at the top, saw its share dip by 0.3%.
Hopefully we will soon see a similar report for Canada.
Source : Comscore