Android declined against iOS

CALIFORNIA - The battle of mobile operation system heats up. Android has more than half of smartphone market share in the United States, is now loosened its grip by IOS. Reported from AllThingsD, Tuesday (07/31/2012), new research from Strategy Analytics said, the market share of Google's operating system in the U.S. declined during the second quarter. Inversely related to Android, Apple's mobile operating system IOS show even more growth is good

.

For the three months ended June (Q2 2012), Android 56 percent control of the U.S. smartphone market, down from last year to 61 percent. In addition, Android handset shipments decline was seen from 15.3 million to 13.4 million. At the same time, the share of the iPhone in U.S. smartphone market increased to 33 percent from 23 percent last year.

Similarly, the shipments of the iPhone in the second quarter of this year which jumped from 5.9 million to 7.9 million. Thus, although the Android smartphone operating system remains the most popular in the U.S., but it seems to be changing. It should be noted, the overall smartphone shipments in the U.S. was down five percent from year to year and of course it's also become one of the causes of Android's market share declined.

To see other reasons of the decline in Android's market share is more than just slowing smartphone growth rate, would have to wait for the results of a recent survey for the third quarter of Strategy Analytics. Meanwhile, in addition to Android and IOS, BlackBerry OS still has a share in the U.S. smartphone market. Operating system made by Research In Motion (RIM) has decreased the U.S. smartphone market share to 6.5 percent from 10.5 percent in the same period last year (Q2 2011)