Top Smartphone Platforms Q3,2010

Blackberry OS 1st Place (- decreasing), iOS 2nd place (- decreasing), Android OS 3rd Place (+ Increase),Windows Phone OS 4th Place (- decreasing), WebOS 5th Place (- decreasing).

Android has overtaken Windows Mobile to become the third largest smartphone OS, by marketshare, in the U.S. The figures from ComScore show that in the period between April and July this year Android surged ahead to claim an extra 5% of the U.S. smartphone market, whilst Microsoft Windows Mobile dropped 2.2%. Of course this is the now outdated OS that Microsoft will soon replace with Win Phone 7 and Microsoft themselves have admitted to having missed a cycle with Windows Mobile.

The interesting thing about these figures, beyond Android growth, is what is happening to the other operating systems. The ComScore figures show that not one of the other operating systems that they track showed any sign of growth in the time period covered, indeed most actually shrank in market share. RIM Blackberry OS lost 1.8% and Apple did not fare much better with a 1.3% drop. It is worth pointing out though that the iPhone 4 will not have affected these results so Apple score may very well have jumped up in the period afterwards.