Nielsen, a market research company, has released a report on Monday which says that Apple's iPhone operating system is still the top mobile OS in the United States. It has captured 28.6 percent of smartphone market. Second is Google's Android platform by having 25.8 percent of the market share.
On the other hand BlackBerry from Research in Motion continues on its steady decline and now able to control only 26.1 percent of the market. As you know, once BlackBerry was the leader in the smartphone trades. Last year in June, BlackBerry was far ahead of Apple and Google with 33 percent share.
Even more interesting is data that says of those buying a smartphone in the last 6 months, 40.8% bought Android phones, while iOS phones had a 26.9 percent share, RIM grabbed 19.2% of the new buyers for its Blackberry phones.
According the Nielsen report that now owning the consumer market share is tighter than it has ever been since the smartphone emerged several years ago.
It can be easily assumed that if the trends continue, it's likely Android will be in the smartphone numbers lead soon, but many analysts continue to predict Apple will remain number 1 in profitability.
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