Android remained the top operating system in the U.S. smartphone market in...
Android remained the top operating system in the U.S. smartphone market in Q2, but its numbers were on the decline, Strategy Analytics said in a report released Monday. The number of shipped Android-powered phones dropped to 13.4 million, from 15.3…
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million in the same period last year. The company’s market share stood at 56.3 percent -- a drop of more than four percentage points from its 60.6 percent last year, the report said. Apple’s shipping numbers rose to 7.9 million smartphones, up two million from last year. Its market share rose to 33.2 percent -- 10 percentage points up from last year, the report said. “Apple is rumored to be launching a new iPhone in the coming weeks, and that event, if it takes place, is going to heap even more pressure on Android in its home market,” said Strategy Analytics Executive Director Neil Mawston. BlackBerry’s market share dropped to 6.5 percent, with its smartphone shipping numbers dropping by more than a million units to 1.6 million. “Consumers, businesses and operators continue to be frustrated by BlackBerry’s limited touchscreen smartphone portfolio and repeated delays to its new BB10 operating system,” said Scott Bicheno of Strategy Analytics. Overall smartphone shipments in the U.S. fell 5 percent year-over-year, to 23.8 million units, the report said. Alex Spektor of Strategy Analytics called the quarter “one of the slowest growth rates ever experienced” by the U.S. smartphone market (http://xrl.us/bniqa5).