Kantar: Apple gains on Android in the US, France and the UK

Apple's share of the US smartphone market grew to 43.4% from 35.6% between May and July according to a Kantar World Panel survey, a gain of 7.8 percentage points that came almost entirely out of the hide of Google's Android (down 7.6 points). The world turns out to be a mosaic of very different smartphone preferences. In Spain, for example, Androids still outnumber iPhones by nearly 15 to 1 despite Apple's 3 percentage point gain, while iOS's market share actually shrank in China (-3.9%) and Germany (-2.1%).