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(Credit: Nielsen) Looking at the mobile industry by device makers, Apple is the only company making smartphones with iOS, giving it the leading share among U.S. consumers at 28 percent. That leaves some of the other device makers more fragmented with smaller chunks of the market. Other top device makers include HTC with 14 percent of Android customers and 6 percent of users running Windows [...]

Nielsen comes bearing good news today for devotees of the little green robot: as of this past June, Android has claimed the top spot in the U.S. smartphone OS market. Figures have it as comprising a full 39% of the market, with its closest competitor Apple a distant second at 28%. Oh, and let’s not forget the BlackBerry OS, which is currently dragging its feet at 20%. Bringing up the rear [...]

Apple iPads will continue to dominate the tablet market for the next couple of years, but market watcher Informa Telecoms & Media expects Android tablets to significantly cut the gap by 2015. Similarly, Gartner said in April that iPads will rule until 2015, when their share of the market would first fall below 50 percent. Informa says Apple currently owns 75 percent of the tablet market [...]

Average pricing on popular apps on Apple’s App Store dropping as time goes on. (Credit: Distimo) Why are games so important? According to Distimo’s June numbers, games are the most popular overall category in all the application stores it tracks, short of BlackBerry’s App World where themes take top honors (note: if looking at BlackBerry App World apps only for Research In Motion’s [...]

Average pricing on popular apps on Apple’s App Store dropping as time goes on. (Credit: Distimo) Why are games so important? According to Distimo’s June numbers, games are the most popular overall category in all the application stores it tracks, short of BlackBerry’s App World where themes take top honors (note: if looking at BlackBerry App World apps only for Research In Motion’s [...]