Several speakers on the mobile app panel at OMMA Global confirmed that Android is a fast-growing and increasingly important part of the smartphone app market. According to stats form Canalys, Android
smartphone sales increased more than 1,000% from 2008-2009, rising from 660,000 to 7.8 million in that period. More recently, for the U.S. market ComScore found that, in the three
months from November 2009 to January 2010, Android's market share in the U.S. smartphone market jumped from 2.8% to 7.1%, while Microsoft Windows Mobile fell from 19.7% to 15.7%.
During this period Apple's share of the smarphone market remained stable, with a slight bump from 24.8% to 25.1%.