{"id":54807,"date":"2012-07-13T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T07:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54807"},"modified":"2012-07-13T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T07:29:44","slug":"android-and-ios-still-lead-third-place-a-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/54807-android-and-ios-still-lead-third-place-a-gamble.html","title":{"rendered":"Android and iOS still lead, third place a gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Details in Nielson’s latest periodic report reveal that two-thirds of US phone purchasers went for smartphones in Q2 2012, as opposed to \u201clower-range\u201d mobile devices.<\/p>\n

When it comes to operating systems, Android still leads the pack in terms of pure penetration, as Android devices account for 51.8% of all smartphones in use (up from 50.4% in Q1 2012).<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s iOS is right behind at 34%, though the company still has the highest manufacturer share (34%), with Samsung sitting a fair bit behind (17%).<\/p>\n

RIM is still clinging to third place and accounts for 8.1% of smartphones – despite its quarterly drop – while other competitors sit below 5%.<\/p>\n

While Android and iOS continue to thrive, the race for third-place spot is getting tighter with RIM\u2019s gradual decline over the last quarter.<\/p>\n

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June 2012 US Smartphone market report<\/p><\/div>\n

Source: Nielson<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Nielson has released a periodic report for the US smartphone market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":54815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[397,691,13127,13365,13367],"class_list":["post-54807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-mobile-market","tag-smartphone-market","tag-us-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54821,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54807\/revisions\/54821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}