Nielsen: iPhone & Android own 71% of U.S. smartphone market

Nielsen: iPhone & Android own 71% of U.S. smartphone market

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/11/29/nielsen-iphone-android-own-71-of-u-s-smartphone-market/

83% of the apps downloaded in the past month were for a Google or Apple phone

“The U.S. smartphone market is starting to look like a two-horse race, judging from data scheduled to be released Wednesday by a Nielsen general manager at AppNation III in San Francisco. Among the new findings:

• 44% of all U.S. mobile subscribers now own a smartphone
• 56% of the mobile phones purchased in the past three months were smartphones
• 71% or buyers purchased an “app friendly” — Nielsen’s phrase — Apple (AAPL) iPhone or Google (GOOG) Android phone
• 83% of the app downloaders in the past 30 days use either iPhones or Android phones”
• “The market shares of the alsorans — Research in Motion (RIMM), Microsoft (MSFT), Nokia (NOK) and Palm (HPQ) — continue to shrink.”

Stephen