Andre Yoskowitz
11 May 2010 23:34
Yesterday, we reported that the latest NPD figures showed the Android operating system had finally overtaken the iPhone for the number two spot in the U.S. smartphone market share, taking 28 percent in the latest quarter.
RIM's BlackBerry OS remains the clear leader at 36 percent, with the iPhone OS in third place at 21 percent for the Q1 2010.
Today, Apple has responded, saying that the NPD figures are limited and not important anyways, as Apple leads in global market share.
Says spokesperson Natalie Harrison: "This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide...IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon."
It should be interesting to see next quarter's global market share numbers.