Google's Android gains share in smartphones: survey

Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and ...

By TechCrunch: By Chris Velazco

The smartphone market may be booming, but Apple and Samsung are the only manufacturers meaningfully profiting from the bonanza.

By Richard Shaw (QVM Group): Nokia (NOK) was once on top of the smartphone market, but Research in Motion (RIMM) outdid them.

The Google Android platform extended its lead in the US smartphone market while Apple increased its market share to nearly a third in March through May, a survey showed Monday.Android accounted for 50.9 percent of all smartphones used in the US during the three-month average period, according to the comScore survey.Apple's iPhone scored 31.9 percent of the market, up from 30.2 percent in the prior three-month period.The survey comes amid intense competition and legal fights over patents in the smartphone market.

By Bret Jensen:Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola Mobility (MMI) is already paying off…for Microsoft. The folly of acquiring a handset maker and becoming a competitor to the very firms [HTC, Samsung (SSNLF.PK), etc.] that you are counting on to have your OS on their smartphones is already becoming apparent.