Android Smartphone Market Share Declines to 56 Percent in United States in Q2 2012

Strategy Analytics:

Android remains the number one platform by volume in the United States, but its market share is peaking as Apple iOS gains ground. Apple’s US market share has risen by ten points from 23 percent in Q2 2011 to 33 percent in Q2 2012.

And what will happen if the next iPhone is available on all major carriers, including T-Mobile will be simply scary.

Mountain Lion Captures 3.2% Share in First 48 Hours

Chitika:

It is rather impressive for an operating system to capture 3.2% of market web usage after just 48 hours on the market. Such figures are likely supported by a relatively low price point for the operating system as well as an expansive list of desired feature improvements.

We Mac users are a fanatic bunch.

Apple owns 74% of smartphone web traffic, 95% of tablet traffic

BGR:

Chitika found that a whopping 95% of tablet Web traffic came from a version of Apple’s iPad, mainly the newest iPad, and 72% of smartphone traffic also belongs to Apple, compared to 26% for Android devices.

Do Android users know that their phones can browse the web? This is such a weird thing. Report after report says that despite Android selling more and more devices every day, with hundreds of models from so many manufacturers, still iOS dominates web browsing. I’ve heard some speculate that most Android buyers really don’t know what they are buying, and that they just get what the store employee tells them and then basically just play games and use it as a phone (as they did with a feature phone, not a smartphone). Whatever it is, it’s really weird, so many freaking phones and not using them to their potential, especially with bigger screens like the ridiculous Galaxy Note. It just doesn’t add up.

Apple sells 8% of Mobile Phones worldwide

AppleInsider:

Research firm Gartner on Wednesday announced its latest mobile device data for the first quarter of calendar 2012. It found that Apple’s 33.1 million iPhones sold accounted for 7.9 percent of the total mobile phone market.

This is with few models and a yearly update cycle, contrary to the rest of the industry which has a bunch of models and come out with a new phone almost monthly. Also, I remember Steve Jobs saying that the goal with iPhone was to get 1% of the mobile market.

NPD quarterly smartphone data questioned (Is Android really winning?)

Electronista:

Market researchers at The Yankee Group report that Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint account for 80 percent of the overall market in the United States. So, if Apple was responsible for 63 percent of the sales, then iPhones claim 50 percent of the total market during the last quarter.

NPD’s defense was their polling methodology. Data is obtained by NPD by polling 12,811 customers and asking which smartphone they bought. When questioned, Ross Rubin, NPD’s executive director for Connected Intelligence, suggested the discrepancy could be coming from pre-paid phones.

So, the wonderful numbers that tell us that Android is “winning” are based on a survey and not on actual data. I see the iPhone grabbing market from Android ever since the launch of the 4S and being available on Sprint, but it should be bigger than what these guys say. It makes me wonder if MG Siegler is right, and Android was winning because Apple’s iPhone, not being available in all carriers, was letting them win. I think there is some truth in that.

iPad dominates the Tablet market, regains market share from Android.

Google wanted to sell 10m Android tablets a year in 2011, have 33 percent marketshare

The Verge:

According to a presentation given by Andy Rubin in July 2010, Google expected to sell some 10 million Android tablets a year in 2011 and 2012 and capture up to a third of the entire tablet market.

I don’t think the plan worked, at least not so far.

HTC sees recovery but no return to U.S. peaks, blames iPhone

Reuters:

Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp won’t have the United States as its largest market from this year, a sign of how far it has fallen and how much more work it has to do in Asia to regain share lost to rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics.

Chief Executive Officer Peter Chou forecast better times ahead for the company after a slump in the first quarter, but said HTC won’t return to the days when more than 50 percent of its revenue came from the United States.

“A major challenge we faced last year was the big drop in sales in the U.S. because of competition from the iPhone 4S,” Chou told an analysts’ briefing on Tuesday on the company’s first-quarter results released earlier in the month. He did not elaborate.

What? So you mean the iPhone 4S, the big disappointment, the crappy same-form factor as the phone before it, is kicking their but? How could that be? Isn’t Android the hot ticket?

Forrester: 760M Tablets In Use By 2016, Apple ‘Clear Leader’

At AT&T, iPhone accounted for 78% of activations in the last quarter.

AT&T:

Smartphone sales of 5.5 million, exceeding the previous first-quarter record, with about 30 percent of all postpaid smartphone subscribers on 4G-capable devices.

Giga Om:

The operator sold 5.5 million smartphones of which 4.3 million were iPhone activations. Of the iPhone activations, AT&T says a whopping 21 percent were net-new additions.

For those keeping the score, 4.3 out of 5.5 is roughly 78%. Android is definitely WINNING.