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Samsung Market Share Growth Continues to Best Apple: comScore
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The data comes from the latest report on the U.S. smartphone market from comScore.
The not-so-good news for Samsung is that its fourth-quarter profit is expected be down by 6% year-over-year and 18% sequentially. The company paid a bonus of around $4,000 to each of its 240,000 employees, and that has sparked calls to return more cash to investors. Fourth-quarter revenue estimates have fallen from $57 billion to around $55 billion.
On the operating system front, the Android platform from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) extended its share in the period, growing by 0.3% from 51.6% to 51.9%. Apple’s iOS gained 0.5%, in the same proportion as its hardware growth. The Windows platform from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) lost 0.1%, dropping from 3.2% to 3.1%. Blackberry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) lost 0.5%, falling from 4.0% to 3.5%.
The mobile sites with the greatest reach belong to Google, followed by Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). Facebook’s mobile app reaches more than 76% of all smartphone users, and its Instagram app has a reach of 26.2%. Of the top 10 smartphone apps measured by reach, Google holds five spots.
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