According to ComScore – Internet market research company, Google’s Adriod OS is eating in to Microsoft and Apple’s mobile market share, with about 9% growth in the last three months itself. While, overall smartphone users have grown to about 21%.
The growth was largely fuelled by the $100 million marketing campaign, which allowed verizon to sell thousands of Motorola Droids during the holidays. While, RIM (Research In Motion), the company behind BlackBerry, managed only a 1.3 percent increase in its smartphone share, while apple say a 0.1 percent drop in market share.
The growth of android is also be touted due to the increased interest in application development for the platform, which unlike Apple’s App Store is less restricting.
