Year: 2010

According to October data from The Nielsen Company (http://www.nielsen.com), 29.7% of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones that run full operating systems. The most popular smartphones are the Apple iPhone and RIM Blackberry, which are caught in a statistical dead heat with 27% of smartphone market share in the U.S.

Twenty-two percent of smartphone owners have devices with the Android operating system. When mobile users who planned to upgrade to a smartphone in the next year were asked about their next phone, Apple’s iOS and Android were tied for “most desired” operating system.

A survey conducted by the he Enterprise Desktop Alliance (http://www.enterprisedesktopalliance.com) — an organization to help IT departments integrate Macs into the corporate environment — showed that Apple Xserve owners are considering a wide range of options in response to Apple’s announcement on Nov. 5 it was ending the shipment of the Xserve hardware platform on Jan. 31, 2011.

BlackBerry OS overtook Apple’s iOS for the first time in the US in November in terms of mobile internet usage according to web analytics company, StatCounter (http://www.statcounter.com). The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats, finds that for the first time in the US BlackBerry OS at 34.3% overtook Apple’s iOS which recorded 33% in November.