This time last year, it seemed that Android was on track for absolute and total annihilation of the mobile smartphone industry, with Google’s mobile baby eating into not just puny competitors BlackBerry, Palm, and Microsoft, but also Apple’s iOS. The story, as it seems to always do, has been changing rapidly since that thought, with industry statistic analysis company comScore issuing its latest smartphone sales survey results. And the results? Well, they aren’t great news for Google.
The newest results reveals that Apple, not Google, is the clear winner this period, which looks at June – September. Though Android continues to be the number one mobile operating system currently in use on the market, impact of Android smartphones on the marketplace has fallen quite rapidly while impact and strong sales of iOS is on the rise. Out of all the Android manufactures currently selling smartphones, only Samsung managed to make any sort of gains this period; Apple’s share of the market is up 1.5%, while Samsung’s is up 1.3%. HTC and Motorola are down 2.2%, contributing to Android’s decline. And remember – this doesn’t even take into consideration the massive sales numbers of the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 5c over these past few weeks.
While not a clear indication of any real problem that requires emergency addressing by Google, it does constitute a potential worrying trend for Android – it’s becoming more and more obvious that customers aren’t interested in Android phones, but rather in Samsung phones. If you take Samsung out of the picture, not a single Android manufacturer made any noticeable positive impact in Android’s share this period. And if you’re Google, whose business strategy relies on getting as many Android devices out there via as many outlets as possible, that’s a potentially worrying statistic.
Via: TheNextWeb
Source: comScore
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