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Is Apple controls the U.S. smartphone market?



(Our Tech Blog) Participation of Apple Inc. in the smartphone sector, especially mobile phone industry is a phenomenon. New jump in this business in 2007 and now with only two types of handsets (iPhone 4 and 3G) on the market, Apple has led the smartphone market, at least for the U.S. market. As reported by ComScore recently, from 76.8 million smartphone users in the U.S., approximately 26.6% is 4 and 3G iPhone users.

U.S Smartphone OEM Share

This year four new iPhone a year old with an iPhone 3G that even two years of record sales figures of more than 20 million units in the U.S.. Meanwhile, RIM was still showing its fangs came in second with 24.7% of market control. However, by not going out this year a new series of BlackBerry sales will likely continue to decline. In third place, and subsequently filled by Android-based phone row HTC (11.8%), Motorola (11.4%), Samsung (8.9%) and others.


HTC is pretty good position because the vendor headquartered in Taiwan supports almost all operators in the U.S., while Apple's iPhone only supports AT & T and Verizon, two leading operators in the country of Uncle Sam. And now HTC is facing charges Apple over patent infringement, there are at least five patents owned by Apple that violated the HTC, including motion sensors and hardware for the touch screen LCD.


Is said to strengthen the position of champion, Apple's forward plans to spend more on the iPhone series to meet the needs of more consumers. This of course will stem the rate of growth of Android-based phones in the last 2 years which is rampant. (Kompasiana)