Android 'surges' overseas, declines for first time in US
FORTUNE -- Pity the poor headline writer trying to make sense of Wednesday's smartphone market share reports.
On the one hand, you have IDC reporting that Apple ( AAPL) "ceded" market share last quarter as Google's ( GOOG) Android "surges," generating this from the Wall Street Journal:
Android Obliterates Smartphone Market
On the other you have comScore reporting that -- for the first time since it appeared in a smartphone in 2008 -- Android failed to gain market share in the U.S., giving Asymco's Horace Dediu an opening to write:
Signs of US Android net user decline
Both headlines can be correct, of course. It wouldn't be the first time America has pulled one way and the rest of world another.
What's harder to say -- and not easy to boil down into a snappy headline -- is whether the U.S. is leading indicator for the worldwide smartphone market, or just a special case.
Below: IDC's worldwide market share fever chart and reader Brian Loftus' graph of net new users based on comScore's U.S. data.
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