Samsung Shifts Apple Position

Samsung extends lead as top seluker phone manufacturers in the U.S. market, and Apple shifted into second place.

Survey results released by comScore, 30/11/2012, shows that in the three months ended October, Samsung became the top producer with a market share of 26.3 percent, up from 25.6 percent in the previous period.

Apple, which only sells smartphones, dropped to second position in the U.S. market for the first time, with a market share of 17.8 percent, up 1.5 percentage points.

South Korean manufacturer, LG third with 17.6 percent market share, followed by Motorola at 11 percent.

Survey shows Google's Android system is strengthened as the leading smart phone platform, with market share of 53.6 percent, up from 52.2 percent. Apple's iOS platform for the iPhone remains in second place, and its market share rose 0.9 points to 34.3 percent, comScore said.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, seen its share declined further from 9.5 percent to 7.8 percent in that period.

And Microsoft, which released Windows Phone 8 platform in late October, the share seems to shrink to 3.2 percent from 3.6 percent. The survey found the 121.3 million people in the U.S. people have a smart phone, or 51.9 percent of the mobile market.

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