ComScore: iPhone Tops Windows Mobile in U.S. Share
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Windows Mobile market share has dived recently around the world. Six months after the original iPhone launched in mid 2007, it had already surpassed Windows Mobile in browser share. And Android is already threatening to eclipse WinMo in device sales.
That said, Windows Mobile’s primary stronghold has been the U.S. Unfortunately, that’s gone too. Research in Motion has been first here for a while. But a new comScore study shows that the iPhone has now surpassed Windows Mobile in U.S. smartphone market share, FierceDeveloper reports.
The numbers reflect current phone ownership at a specific point in time, averaged over a three-month period ending in October, for mobile subscribers in the U.S. over the age of 13. About 36 million Americans own smartphones, compared to another 196 million that own “non-smartphones” that feature closed operating systems. (We can leave that debate for another post; the definition of a smartphone is still evolving.)
One note: “Palm” doesn’t include webOS share yet. comScore claims the numbers weren’t significant enough yet to be considered solid data for this report.
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