Board of market research, The NPD Group, has issued a report on the smartphone market in the U.S. from January to October 2011. "Competition has been dominated by Google and Apple handset providers to force companies to make major changes," said Ross Rubin, Executive Director of Connected Intelligence for The NPD Group.
Google's Android platform represents 53 percent of the smartphone market in the U.S., or up 11 percent from 2010. This distinction because of the rapid increase in 2009 and Android in the U.S. market only 9 percent.
For Apple IOS has grown to 29 percent. IOS in the U.S. market share could decline. In 2009, IOS users as much as 24 percent, but in 2010 fell to 21 percent.
BlackBerry OS market, Researh In Motion (RIM), this year down to 10 percent. BlackBerry OS heyday occurred in 2009, when they capture 44 percent of smartphone market in the U.S., beating the IOS and Android. However, the popularity of the BlackBerry OS starts to decline in 2010 with 25 percent of market turnover.
two operating systems from Microsoft the collapse because the market is only 3 percent of Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 only 2 percent. Windows Mobile could succeed in 2007 with market share to 42 percent.
Google Android platform and Apple IOS dominates smartphone market in the United States (U.S.) in 2011. While other operating systems that follow expand the U.S. market, such as the BlackBerry OS and Windows, forced to work hard to reform their strategies.
