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Jeff Campbell
12-18-2009, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=836604' target='_blank'>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthr...ad.php?t=836604</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"FierceDeveloper reports on data from research firm comScore showing that Apple's iPhone has finally surpassed Windows Mobile in share of the U.S. smartphone market usage. The data is based on monthly user surveys averaged on a quarterly basis, and thus reflects actual handsets in use rather than sales of new devices."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1261077581.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>You can checkout the report and the data they used to draw their conclusions on the <a href="http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/pages/what-were-top-smartphone-operating-systems-october" target="_blank">Fierce Developer site</a>, but the quick and dirty is that according to comScore data 36 million in the US are smartphone owners and 25% of them use the iPhone. Rim is still number one with 40% of the smartphones, and Windows Mobile has dropped to just over 20%.</p>

doogald
12-18-2009, 04:50 PM
Looking at that growth for RIM, and they must be happy as well. Even if their customers weren't so happy yesterday . . .

Phillip Dyson
12-18-2009, 05:36 PM
I guess from all of the hype, I would have expected to see Windows Mobile going through a steep decline. It would appear (based on this chart) that they are significantly stagnant. Of course in the business word that is almost the same.

Palm seemed to get a slight uptick though.