iPhone Tops T-Mobile USA's Smartphone Sales as Carrier Expansion Drives Growth for AppleResearch firm Kantar Worldpanel has released a new report (via The Next Web) highlighting U.S. smartphone sales over the March-May period, finding that Apple's share of the market rose by 3.5 percentage points compared to the prior-year period. The report attributes that growth to the iPhone becoming available on T-Mobile USA, the last of the four major U.S. carriers to begin offering the device.Consequently, with Android remaining unchanged (+0.1%) to date this year, the gap between the two leading operating systems has decreased, according to data released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Through the 3 month period ending May 2013, Android continues to lead smartphone sales at 52%. Close behind is iOS with 41.9% of sales. Windows remains in third with 4.6% of sales, up 0.9% versus the same period last year. According to the report, the iPhone 5 was the best-selling smartphone at T-Mobile during the quarter, despite not having launched until the middle of the survey period. The iPhone's 31% share of T-Mobile smartphone sales was still well short of the device's 60% share of sales at AT&T and even its 44% share at Verizon, but with the device only having been available for half of the quarter, a more realistic measure of the iPhone's popularity among T-Mobile customers will come in future quarters. Recent Mac and iOS Blog Stories • Apple Stores to Sell Square Stand Point-of-Sale System • Instagram Updated with Landscape Support, Cinema Stabilization for Front-Facing Camera • T-Mobile Drops iPhone Down Payment Price by $4, Increases Monthly Payment by $1 • Apple Seeds OS X 10.8.5 Build 12F17 to Developers • Vine Updated with Additional Camera Features, New Channels, And 'Revining' • Hit Indie Puzzler 'Limbo' Now Available for iOS • Original Angry Birds Updated with New Egg Defender Mode • Snuglet Kickstarter Project Aims to Secure Loose MagSafe 2 Cables
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