Google and Apple Dominate U.S. Smartphone Market

Google and Aple dominate U.S. smartphone market. Smart phone market in the United States has increased rapidly during the year 2012. Nielsen research institute announced the results of its research on the mobile and digital devices.

According to data from Nielsen reported by PCMag, Friday (12/21/2012), in 2012 for the first time the number of smartphone users managed to dominate the number of mobile users in the United States. Communication device with a variety of support functions that have gained a good position in the mobile market.

Smartphone users in Uncle Sam until March 2012 there were already reached 50.4 percent, up from December 2011 which only amounted to 47.8 percent. Increased smartphone users still continue to occur up to 56 percent at the end of this year.

Google and Apple is claimed to give the largest contribution to the increase in the number of smartphone users. The device's operating system using two companies controlled 87 percent of the number of smartphone users in the U.S..

According to Nielsen smartphone users in the U.S. market is still in control Google Android with 52 percent of users, followed by Apple's iOS at 35 percent. Blackberry came in third with 7 percent and Microsoft's Windows Phone gets only 2 percent.