[discostu]

53% of the market share is 53% of the market share no matter how much you shout.

[Swordmaker]

Is it? Only one analyst found that statistic... and he had to squish the data to come up with that figure. Nielson, a much more prestigious polling company, has different figures:

Nielsen Q410 U.S. mobile OS market share: Apple iOS 28%, RIM BlackBerry 27%, Google Android 27%

Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 04:15 PM EST

"The competition between smartphone operating systems is a heated one. When it comes to the installed base, U.S. mobile consumers who already own smartphones, Apple's iOS leads with 28%, followed closely by RIM BlackBerry and Google's Android, each with 27%," Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Telecom Practice Research and Insights, reports for The Nielsen Company.