Apple holds almost 40% of U.S. Smartphone Market Share

Last Friday comScore released the results of their monthly survey of U.S. mobile phone users, their results covered January to March and showed that during this timeframe Apple’s share rose from 36.3% of total U.S. smartphone platform and hardware sales to 39%.

During the same timeframe Samsung came in second with 21.7% in March, a slight increase from 21% in December. As you can see in the table below Android still ranks as the top smartphone platform with 52% this number however is lower than December by 1.4% the difference having gone to Apple.

Other companies such as Blackberry and Symbian both saw declines in their marketshare, with Blackberry loosing 1.2%, Microsoft however seems to be stable around the 3% point, Apple and Android now hold more than 91 percent of the smartphone market.