According to Strategy Analytics, Samsung is the leading seller of smartphones, with over half of the Android market. Troubling, though, is that U.S. sales of Android declined 5 percent year-over-year, implying that the platform may have reached its peak
U.S. smartphone sales trends reflected the slowdown globally, even though Android is still at 56 percent of all sales and remains the most dominant in the U.S. Still, that share was lost to Apple who has 33 percent of the market and was the only OS to have grown over last year (up 10 percent); RIM’s Blackberry stands at 1.6 million units sold or 6.5 percent of the market.
“This was one of the slowest growth rates ever experienced by the important U.S. smartphone market,” said Alex Spektor, associate director at Strategy Analytics. Some of the reasons given are economic issues, higher penetration of smartphones, and tighter upgrade policies to improve margins – roughly the same as they are for the global market.
Source: TechCrunch.com
