Against All Odds, U.S. Is Leader In Smart Phone Market

Despite a recession and competition from foreign smartphone manufacturers and developers, the United States has become the leader in the smart phone market, says Mary Meeker, partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins.

"In what looked like a market the U.S. was not gonna lead in, America is winning in a big way.

Software and applications likely would be credited with some of the reasons for leadership, since most observers would say the U.S. market also leads in Web apps.

  U.S. Is Leader In Smartphone Market