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08-08-2013, 08:50 AM
The past quarter has been a very good one for Android and IDC now estimates that Google’s mobile platform accounted for nearly 80% of all smartphones shipped in Q2 2013. But there’s one place where iOS has been stubbornly resilient and has kept Android largely at bay: In the United States. Asymco’s Horace Dediu took a look at the latest numbers from comScore and found some evidence that Android has for now peaked in the U.S., as its growth stalled over the past quarter and the number of American Android users actually declined for the first time ever. “The pattern of Android ‘peaking’ has been evident for some time,” wrote.Dediu. “Even though share stopped growing about a year ago, Android

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