It looks like yet again more data to support that Google's Android platform is eating away at the share of other smartphone operating systems, including RIM and Apple. ComScore's smartphone numbers were just released today, which measured smartphone usage from May until August. According to the recent data, 55.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in August, up 14 percent from the the May period.
While RIM was the most popular smartphone platform with 37.6 percent share of U.S. smartphone subscribers, followed by Apple with 24.2 percent share; Google continued to gain ground in the market, rising 6.6 percentage points to capture 19.6 percent of smartphone subscribers. In fact, RIM's share dropped from 41.7 percent in the May period and Apple also saw a slight drop as well. Microsoft accounted for 10.8 percent of smartphone subscribers, while Palm rounded out the top five with 4.6 percent. All the platforms posted losses in share except for Android phones.
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