Sunday, April 3, 2011

Android Now Dominant Mobile Phone Operating System

Fred Wilson submits:

Roughly six months ago, I put up a blog post suggesting Android was going to be the dominant mobile phone operating system and that developers interested in the largest user bases ought to start developing for it in preference to iOS.

As you might expect, I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for that post and one of the strongest points they made was that we had not yet seen the effect of the Verizon (VZ) iPhone (AAPL) on market share numbers.

Well now we have. iPhone had a fantastic February on the back of a strong launch of the Verizon iPhone. comScore's February mobile numbers are out and here's where things stand in terms of OS market share in the US. Click to enlarge:

It looks like the Verizon iPhone launch is helping iOS hold its own with 25% of the market. I expect (and hope) that


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