comScore’s MobiLens quarterly data is out and Android nabs the No.1 slot in the U.S with a market share of 34.7% for March 2011. Android showed a 6-percentage point growth q-o-q, eating away shares from RIM, Microsoft and Palm. Apple inched closer to the 2nd spot, currently held by RIM (27.1%) with a q-o-q growth of 0.5 points, clocking a share of 25.5%.

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IHS iSuppli, released a report today that pegs the combined revenues of the four major app stores (run by Apple, Google, RIM & Nokia) to USD 3.8 Billion for 2011. Collective revenues of these app stores in 2010 stood at $2.8B, which is a 77.7% increase y-o-y. Apple is projected to claim a ‘ gargantuan 76% of the total app market revenue”, according to iSuppli.

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Nielsen’s Who is the most wanted smartphone study, reveals Android as the top dog on the most desired, recent sales and installed base fronts. The survey results show that 31% of the users wanted Android as their next smartphone with Apple at 30% and RIM Blackberry at 11% following suit.

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Shoutem, whose platform enables anyone to rapidly deploy cost-effective mobile apps, released an infographic tracking the state of mobile apps. The pictorial below captures data points from top app platforms to high rated apps, and everything in between. They state that 5B apps were downloaded in ‘10 and its expected to spike to 21B by ‘13. 

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Gartner, released its latest projections on media tablet O.S market share, and forecasts that iPad would lose nearly 45% of its current share by 2015. Android and RIM’s yet to be released QNX O.S is projected to grow their share by eating into Apple’s iOS portion.

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Taiwan’s Cens News, reports that HTC’s market value has currently ballooned to over NT$900 Billion and is on course to touch NT$ 1 Trillion this year. The company’s rocketing smartphone sales volume has contributed to the rally in share price and it could become Taiwan’s third publicly listed company to cross the NT$ 1 Trillion market cap barrier.

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Two reports were released for Q3, 2010 that pegs Android as the top dog, both in terms of shipments and the most popular OS in the U.S. NPD data estimates Android OS to have garnered 44% of the Smartphone OS market-share, where Android has eaten heavily into RIM’s share. Canalys, a U.K based research firm’s data suggests that Android shipment for Q3 is nearly twice as that of Apple’s, with the former gathering a 44% share of the total 20.9 million smartphones shipped across the United States.

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Piper Jaffray predicts that Android smartphones would control over 50% of the market by 2015, with iPhone’s share pegged between 20-30%. That leaves around a 20% of the share space for other players to wiggle with. The firm goes onto state that perhaps both RIM and Nokia could be powered by Android software by then, and hence contributing to Android’s dominance. It’s estimated that Android would catch up with iPhone’s share by early next year with their 2010 global market share projected at 14.9% and 15.9% respectively.

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Analytics firm, Quantcast released a couple of stats that points to Androids ascendancy in mobile web consumption within the U.S. iOS share of mobile web consumption has dropped from 68% in May 09 to 56% in Aug 10, whereas Android has grabbed share ‘from every corner of the market’ and grown from 8% to 25% within the same period. RIM and Other OS hover around the 10% share of total mobile web consumption, says Quantcast.

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Blackberry has long been the weapon of choice for execs in corporations, and preferred by the enterprise due to its strong security and data management features. But the enterprise tide is skewing towards other platforms such as iOS and Android, states Bernstien Analyst Pierre Ferragu. Saturation of the email market is contributing to the shift by enterprises to other platforms. Consumer/employee preference to other smartphones is another key factor. Nearly 3/4th of the firms surveyed are now using iPhones, Windows Mobile and Android run devices to access their email on the go

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