Jeff Campbell
06-06-2011, 10:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mactech.com/2011/06/03/apple-now-number-two-among-us-smartphone-vendors-0' target='_blank'>http://www.mactech.com/2011/06/03/a...phone-vendors-0</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"According to comScore (http://www.comscore.com), a "group that measures the digital world," 74.6 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in April 2011, up 13% from the three-month period ending in January 2011."</em></p><p><img height="319" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/zt/auto/1303417243.usr105634.jpg" style="margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px;" width="500" /></p><p>This puts Apple in the number two spot for smartphone makers in the US behind Samsung, who had 24.5% of the subscribers. Google Android is still the top operating system, however, with 36.4% of US smartphone subscribers. This is up 5.2% from the previous comScore that ended in January of 2011. Apple is also number two in the operating system rankings with 26% of the market. RIM comes in third with 25.7%, not far behind Apple. The top three are followed up by Microsoft at 6.7% and Palm with 2.6%.</p>