• The Next Web, Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:38 AM

What's the latest on the horse race in which mobile platform providers remain feverishly engaged? In the last quarter, Google's Android platform overtook Apple's iOS software to become the second-most-popular smartphone operating system in the EU, according the latest data from comScore. Both platforms continued to chip away at Symbian's share -- "despite the fact [that] it still powered one in every three smartphones bought during that period," notes The Next Web.

Nokia's Symbian now holds a 37.8% share of the market, down 16.1 points year-over-year. The culprit? Google's Android platform accounted for all of Symbian's loss, posting 16.2 percentage point growth to increase its share from 6% to 22.3%, according to comScore. Apple's growth was slower -- rising from 19% to 20.3% -- which was almost mirrored by RIM in fourth position with growth of 1.5 points to hold a 9.4% share.

Microsoft saw a loss of 4.8 points -- "but will be attributed to the fact that Windows Phone hadn't launched in the region in July of last year," The Next Web writes.

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