Experts analyst firm comScore released a report showing the development of the market for mobile operating systems in the United States. According to statistics, the undisputed leader in the United States remains by Apple.
According to the report comScore, 186,3 million people in the US use smartphones as of the end of February, which is 5% more than in November last year. Software platform, Apple is not able to maintain the trend of the previous month and iOS slightly lost in the intervening period. Android, in turn, strengthened the position.
Android's share for the previous period increased by 0,2% to 52,8%, iOS decreased by 0.1%, reaching 41.7%. Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones has lost four months of 0.2% and stood at 1.8%, while the share of mobile OSes Microsoft has increased by 0.1 percentage points to 3.5%.
From the standpoint of the most popular manufacturers of smartphones in the US market proved the brand Apple, followed by Samsung. The two leaders of the market occupied by 41.7% and 28.6%, both companies have lost in the last four months, 0.1% and 1.1%, respectively. Ratio Motorola also decreased to 5.1% (-0.1%), while LG and HTC have strengthened - 8.3% (+ 0.7%) and 3.8% (+ 0.1%) respectively.
In comScore traditionally affected the balance of power in the market for mobile applications.According to the research, Facebook in September acquired 71.2% of mobile devices on iOS and Android. They are followed by YouTube and Google search with the indicators 56.4% and 52.2%.