Google Android continues to grow faster in the U.S. than any other operating system for smartphones, including Research In Motion and BlackBerry OS IOS Apple, according to the latest ComScore rankings, released Friday.
Android customer rose 6.5 percent during the period of three months, while the number of customers of RIM fell 3.5 percentage points and the base, and Apple has slightly increased from the three months ended in July.
Overall, Android last three month period ended in third place behind the BlackBerry and the IOS, which runs the Apple iPhone.
These conclusions are based on a survey of 30,000 mobile subscribers and more than 13 years, a spokesman said comScore.
RIM holds 35.8% of subscribers in October, down from 39.3% in July. Apple's share of 24.6% in the last period compared to 23.8% in July. Google ended the period with 23.5% of subscribers, up 17% in July.
market share from Microsoft, such as RIM, has also declined, falling from a share of 11.8% in July to 9.7% in October. Palm, now owned by HP, has a market share of 3.9% in October, down 4.9% in July.
Which showed strong by Android has been demonstrated in other investigations as well.
Many analysts believe that Android will become the second most used smartphone OS in the world at the end of 2010, behind Nokia's Symbian OS. completed, it will bring Android smartphone sales well ahead of projections made a year ago.
The decrease for RIM and Microsoft have also been predicted by other sources.
Earlier this week, Nielsen presented the results of the survey is somewhat different for U.S. mobile subscribers, iPhone and RIM tiedat the top of the list, with Android, coming in third. Neilson survey also asked respondents who they would buy next smartphone, iPhone and come out on top.
ComScore notes that 60.7 million people in the United States who owned smartphones during the three months ending in late October, up 14% from three months earlier. ComScore notes that even if a manufacturer operating system has lost market share, he can continue to add customers as the global smartphone market is growing.
