iOS and Windows Phone grow faster than Android in U.S. - Volkskrant

03/06/13, 10:17 – Source: Reuters

Apple’s iPhone and devices running on Windows Phone Microsoft see their market share in the United States are growing faster than smartphones with Android operating system. The results are striking Kantars market research, know technology blog VentureBeat.

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The market share of the iPhone has increased this quarter to 41.4 percent, while Windows Phone climbed from 3.8 percent to 5.6 percent. That does not seem very special, but the figures give Microsoft an annualized very different picture. The growth of Windows Phone is annualized namely 47 percent and that is significant.

Microsoft seems to WP 7.8 and 8 to do when users in the age group of 25 to 34 years. WP especially good About one third of all new WP users comes from an Android phone. The rest comes almost entirely from a ‘dumb phone’. Only a few trades his iPhone for a Windows Phone device.

Incidentally, Android still king of the total market share. With 51.7 percent still works more than half of all smartphones sold in the system of Google.

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