Google’s Android mobile operating system is slowly gaining ground in the US at the expense of Apple and its iOS4 platform and Research in Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry devices.
According to comScore research, Android users jumped from 9% of the smartphone market in February to 13% in May.
Other platforms, which include Apple, RIM, Microsoft and Palm all experienced drops, with Microsoft suffering the largest loss of 1.9%.
RIM is still the leading smartphone platform in the US with 41.7% share of subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.4%.
Despite losing share to Android, comScore said that “most smartphone platforms continue to gain subscribers as the smartphone market overall continues to grow”.
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