{"id":14164,"date":"2011-01-06T00:48:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:06:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:06:24","slug":"androids-user-base-finally-surpasses-iphones-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/androids-user-base-finally-surpasses-iphones-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Android’s user base finally surpasses iPhone’s in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time coming, but Android <\/strong>is now officially the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States<\/strong>. In the last three months of 2010 about 26% of smartphone users in the U.S. said their primary phone had Android on it, according to a new survey<\/strong> by the technology-tracking firm comScore Inc. This is in comparison to 25% of users who said they were using Apple’s iPhone<\/strong>. This is encouraging news for Google as Android’s creator. BlackBerry<\/strong> maker Research In Motion Ltd. still holds the first place spot, however, although its user base fell from 33.5% to 37.6% in August.<\/p>\n

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While the survey suggests the Android operating system’s increasing popularity over Apple’s iPhone, these statistics only tell a portion of the overall story. The iPhone system is only available on Apple devices, whereas Android is available across a variety of different mobile devices, and even on other non-mobile gadgets. As a consequence, products are far easier to develop for the iPhone than for the myriad of different devices that run the Android operating system.<\/p>\n

These statistics also don’t account for the fact that the iPhone will be moving to Verizon Wireless<\/strong> later this year, in addition to its current exclusive contract with AT&T<\/strong>. As it opens itself up to another large potential user base, this could give Apple a leg-up the next time a similar survey is completed. One thing’s for certain: Apple seems eager and willing to give Google’s Android system a run for its money in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a long time coming, but Android is now officially the most popular smartphone operating system in the United States. In the last three months of 2010 about 26% of smartphone users in the U.S. said their primary phone had Android on it, according to a new survey by the technology-tracking firm comScore Inc. … Continue reading “Android’s user base finally surpasses iPhone’s in the U.S.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-14164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334508,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions\/334508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}