Numbers Don't Lie: BlackBerry (BBRY) Ceded U.S. Market Share in May (AAPL) (GOOG)

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. smartphone industry during the three month average period ending May 2013. Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 39 percent OEM market share, while Google Android led as the #1 smartphone platform with 52 percent platform market share.

Smartphone OEM Market Share

141 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (59 percent mobile market penetration) during the three months ending in May, up 6 percent since February. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) ranked as the top OEM with 39.2 percent of U.S. smartphone subscribers (up 0.3 percentage points from February). Samsung ranked second with 23 percent market share (up 1.7 percentage points), followed by HTC with 8.7 percent, Motorola with 7.8 percent and LG with 6.7 percent.

Smartphone Platform Market Share

Android (Nasdaq: GOOG) ranked as the top smartphone platform in May with 52.4 percent market share (up 0.7 percentage points from February). Apple ranked second with 39.2 percent market share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by BlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY) with 4.8 percent, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) with 3 percent and Symbian with 0.4 percent.

Notably, BlackBerry market share fell 0.8 points to 5.1 percent for the three-months ended April 2013 and 1.2 points to 5.2 percent for the three-months ended March 2013.

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