PCWorld: iPhone and Android Market Share on the Rise
With Google Android and iPhone both making significant inroads on the smartphone leaders – BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm – SMBs face a trickier decision if they want to back a winner.
“New statistics from comScore show that Apple and Google are both gaining ground in the battle for smartphone market share in the United States. Perhaps, as Google indicated when introducing the Nexus One, the iPhone and Android platforms are really next-generation “superphones” and the comparison with “normal” smartphones is unfair.
RIM, maker of all things BlackBerry, still has a solid grip on first place, carrying just under 42 percent of the market for the fourth quarter of 2009. However, RIM did decline from Q3, as did Microsoft, and Palm.”