iPhone users surpass WinMo users

It was bound to happen at some point. According to research firm comScore, more people now use Apple iPhones than all Windows Mobile devices.

Apple overtook Microsoft sometime between July and October, it seems. Back in July, there were 6.63 million people using the iPhone operating system versus 6.66 million using Windows Mobile. This past October, iPhone use jumped to 8.97 million people and WinMo had 7.13 million users, according to comScore.

Leading the U.S. mobile OS pack, however, was Research In Motion, which produces the popular BlackBerry line of smartphones. Apple was in second place and Microsoft was in third.

Five BlackBerry models were among the top phones people plan to buy within the next three months, comScore said. The only Windows Mobile phone comScore even included in its survey of 2,300 people was the HTC Tilt, which 1 percent of respondents said they planned to purchase.

The rest were BlackBerries, Palm devices, Google Android phones and the iPhone 3GS.

Year: 2009	February	May	June	October
RIM	9,668,977	12,202,058	13,080,555	14,963,238
Apple	5,258,504	5,744,018	6,630,298	8,970,049
Microsoft	6,807,554	7,040,584	6,659,579	7,131,797
Palm	2,398,755	2,406,244	2,626,151	2,843,534
Symbian	888,532	889,232	1,042,052	1,297,965
Google	427,914	797,633	894,159	1,020,364
No proprietary OS	206,825,938	203,920,230	200,981,682	196,773,054

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