{"id":17707,"date":"2012-02-08T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17707"},"modified":"2012-02-08T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T16:15:53","slug":"googles-android-and-apples-ios-continue-to-dominate-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/googles-android-and-apples-ios-continue-to-dominate-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Android and Apple&#8217;s iOS Continue to Dominate Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest report from ComScore, Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) continue to devour market share from the dwindling Blackberry (RIMM), Microsoft (MSFT) and Symbian devices (NOK).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/_d_improd_\/OS_f_improf_500x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" data-mce-height=\"43\" data-mce-width=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As the iPhone expands its line with the 4S their products continue to become increasingly popular, we are beginning to see Apple increase its market share in hardware as well. \u00a0 The latest data shows an increase of 2.2% since September of 2011 through December of 2011. \u00a0 While Samsung continues to dominate the handset market, the growth appears to be stagnating. \u00a0 We would expect to see Apple extend its rise if they can continue to bring new and innovative products to the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/_d_improd_\/Devices_f_improf_500x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" data-mce-height=\"43\" data-mce-width=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest report from ComScore, Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) continue to devour market share from the dwindling Blackberry (RIMM), Microsoft (MSFT) and Symbian devices (NOK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[224,42],"tags":[494,490],"class_list":["post-17707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-long-ideas","category-stocks","tag-long-ideas","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}