The results of comScore’s monthly rolling survey of U.S. mobile phone users for the August-September 2013 period has been released, and it shows Apple’s share of the smartphone market rising to 40.6%, while Android took 51.8% of the pie.
For handset manufacturers, Apple was in first place by a wide margin, with second place Samsung holding 25.4 percent of the market. […] Apple ranked as the top OEM with 40.6 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 0.2 percentage points from July). Samsung ranked second with 25.4 percent market share (up 1.3 percentage points), while Motorola made the leap to third with 7 percent (up 0.1 percentage points). HTC and LG followed with 6.7 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively.
149.2 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during the period, up 4.1% since July.
Apple and Google own 92.2% of the market between them, BlackBerry and Symbian lost ground, while Windows Phone gained slightly.
