ComScore U.S. Smartphone Figures: Android Grows, Apple Stagnates, Everyone Else Falls

ComScore U.S. Smartphone Figures: Android Grows, Apple Stagnates, Everyone Else Falls: "ComScore have released their figures for the smartphone world, giving us another glimpse into how the various players have been doing over the past quarter. A small caveat before looking at the figures, these numbers are for the U.S. market, not the overall global market, but they do still give us an insight into how each platform is trending.

Once again the biggest success story is undoutedly Android, which saw growth of 44% during the July-September period and ended with a market share of 21.4%, up a very healthy 6.5% over the previous quarter. That growth came at the expense of just about everyone else, Microsoft, Palm and RIM all saw their marketshare fall whilst the best Apple could manage was to keep their's constant.

Apple's marketshare remained at 24.3%, the same as during the preceeding quarter, but that is actually an improvement because in that preceeding quarter Apple's marketshare had been falling so it looks like the iPhone 4 has managed to shore up its base so to speak.

Of course the numbers we see here for Microsoft are not inclusive of Windows Phone 7, which hasn't yet had a chance to make a big impact upon the market and Palm is also releasing the Pre 2, although it's doubtful how much of an impact that will have.

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