comScore-IncU.S. analytics firm comScore has just released its report on smartphone subscriber market share in the U.S. covering February 2015. And the figures show that “Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 41.7 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 52.8 percent platform market share. Facebook ranked as the top individual smartphone app.”

According to comScore, the U.S. smartphone snowball just keeps on rolling downhill, gathering momentum: “186.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (76.6 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in February, up 5 percent since November.” Manufacturers bringing up the rankings behind Apple in the U.S. were Samsung, with 28.6 percent market share, followed by LG with 8.3 percent, Motorola with 5.1 percent, and HTC with 3.8 percent.

Microsoft’s share of the U.S. smartphone market now stands at 3.5 percent, up from 3.4 percent in November, so obviously there is little momentum behind the Windows Phone platform. Google has risen 0.2 percent in the platform rankings to 52.8 percent from 52.6 percent in November, but it’s obvious that overall the stratification of the U.S. smartphone market remains pretty constant. And since that same platform breakdown has stayed more or less constant throughout a 5 percent growth in total market size, according to comScore, it will likely need a lot more to change it than any market trend currently in play. Spillover from the Windows OS tablet market might change the scores, but right now there seems very little else that will.

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