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Well, that's...surprisingly different to the ComScore numbers released today(/yesterday). http://mashable.com/2013/01/04/apple-smartphone-market-share-35-percen

Well, that's...surprisingly different to the ComScore numbers released today(/yesterday). http://mashable.com/2013/01/04/apple-smartphone-market-share-35-percent/ http://mashable.com/2013/01/04/apple-smartphone-market-share... Is Kantar actually tracking sales share, rather than ownership? That seems to be the only way these two sets of numbers reconcile, and is plausible from the wording of the article.

rednukleus 14y ago
I love the fact that the article you linked, which is about how Google have gained 1.1% marketshare, and Apple gained 0.7% marketshare, is called "Apple's U.S. Smartphone Market Share Rises" with a massive picture of an iPhone.
- lostlogin 14y ago
  Of that 1.1% I wounded how much is Samsung? I'm picking they had a bigger growth than android.
  - rednukleus 14y ago
    From the article, Samsung grew 1.2% of all phones (including feature phones). So I'd say they almost certainly did grow faster than Android as a whole. I wouldn't be that surprised if Android minus Samsung contracted slightly in the quarter.
- w1ntermute 14y ago
  The tech news community is chock full of Apple fanbois. Has been for years.
  - guywithabike 14y ago
    It's not about "fanbois" (whatever the hell that means), it's about the fact that articles about Apple attract orders-of-magnitude more clicks, and PR-reposting sites like Mashable worship at the alter of pageviews.
    - w1ntermute 14y ago
      > It's not about "fanbois" (whatever the hell that means) I suspect you know exactly what that means, but you're being intentionally dense in order to make a point, although you have ended up doing so in a very transparent fashion.
slaven 14y ago
comScore is looking at smartphones in use today, regardless of when they were purchased; Kantar is looking at share of new purchases.