IPhone Market Share Grows in Europe falls in United States in Q2

Apple returned to growth in the smartphone market in the second quarter in Europe’s five largest countries, while losing share in the US, according to the latest figures from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.

In the United States, Android is number one with a share of 66.1 percent, an increase of 3.4 percent as compared to the same period in 2014, while iOS lost 2.3 percent of its users to eventually settle at 30.5 percent.

Milanesi said “LG is the real success story of the quarter”.

US District Judge Lucy Koh, who was also the judge for the Apple vs Samsung case, claimed the case couldn’t be pushed forward due to lack of substantial evidence that Apple’s system failure was malicious or documented.

The results were in stark contrast to the U.S., where Kantar found that Android enjoyed stronger gains in Q2.

“In the U.S., as we forecasted last month, Android’s growth continued in the quarter ending June 30, with both Samsung and LG increasing their share sequentially”.

Interestingly it appears that the advances Apple has made in iOS 9 with multitasking, split screens, and a keyboard that doubles as a touchpad, are helping consumers view the iPad more like a PC.

After the roll out of iMessage in 2011, many former iPhone users and now Android users said texts sent to them using iMessage ended up in limbo, even though the sender thought they had reached their destination.

After claiming to have installed Android on an iPhone 6, Dutch pair Alexander Spoor and Sacha Harland from the YouTube channel Dit Is Normal took to the streets to try to convince people it was the soon-to-be-released iOS 9. The firm also mentioned that in all five major European markets, the most significant motivator behind Android devices’ purchases is their screen size.

An interactive visualization detailing Kantar’s second-quarter global mobile market share data is embedded below.