Early success for the iPhone 5 smartphone has helped Apple to overtake Google’s Android software in the US, a research firm said yesterday.
Apple’s US share of smartphone sales in the 12 weeks to Oct. 31 more than doubled from a year ago to 48.1 percent, putting it within reach of the record 49.3 percent it managed in early 2012.
Android’s share dropped to 46.7 percent from 63.3 percent, data showed.
Research In Motion saw its share fall in all but one of the surveyed markets, sliding to 1.6 percent from 8.5 percent in the US.
RIM’s stock fell 5.9 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange. But the shares, which soared last week on optimism around RIM’s soon-to-be-launched BlackBerry 10 devices, were still up more than 15 percent from last Monday.