Thanks to the iPhone 4S, Apple Chase Android

Apple performance to win back market share, has begun to provide amazing results in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to data disclosed by Nielsen, the leap Apple is also thanks to the presence of the 'new kid' iPhone 4S in October.

Reported by IB Times, Thursday (1/19/2012), according to Nielsen, 44.5 percent of smartphone buyers purchased an iPhone more than Android-based phones in the last quarter of last year. Than before the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple only managed to obtain 25.1 percent market share.

While Android's market share still holds a major position in the market the United States (U.S.), with 46.3 percent. But it seems that Apple did not want to miss too much, with the latest operating system IOS 5, proved to be successfully closed the gap last year.

So with the above data, you could say Android's market share in October when the last quarter of 2011, down 61.6 percent compared to the previous. Decline in market share is, of course, thanks to the presence of Apple's latest phone, the iPhone 4S.

While the iPhone looks continue to grow, varies inversely with the BlackBerry growth of 7.7 percent in October to 4.5 percent in two months later