“Apple’s iPhone 5 emerged as the most popular smartphone in the UAE in the third quarter of the year, with 2.8 per cent of the total marketshare,” Aarti Nagraj reports for Gulf Business. “The device replaced Samsung Galaxy S3, which was pushed to the second position with a 2.5 per cent share, according to data released by the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).”
“According to the report, 46 per cent of handsets registered on the UAE’s networks between July 1 and September 30 were smartphones,” Nagraj reports. “In terms of models, iPhone 4S came third with a 2.3 per cent marketshare followed by iPhone 4 and BlackBerry 9900 (both 1.8 per cent), Samsung S4 (1.6 per cent), Galaxy S Duos (1.2 per cent), BlackBerry Bold 9790 (1.1 per cent) and BlackBerry Bold 9780 with one per cent.”
“Overall, the report found that 56.2 per cent of the handsets in the UAE were manufactured by Nokia in Q3, down slightly from 56.4 per cent in Q2 2013,” Nagraj reports. “Nokia was followed by Samsung with a 16.4 per cent marketshare, up from 13.8 per cent in Q2, BlackBerry – 10.2 per cent, down from 10.7 per cent in Q2 and Apple – 7.8 per cent, higher than 7.4 per cent last quarter.”
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[Attribution: Patently Apple. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
The World is Apple incs. oyster!
Apple went from 7.4% to 7.8%.
Samsung went from 13.8% to 16.4%.
What did I miss?
Remember, market share is all that counts. Don’t look at profits.
Hey Crab – Eat your kimchee and shut up.
Apple Rules JERK!
What’s your beef Tommy? or rather who is your beef with?
p.s very highly fermented kim chi and therefor quite sour has some serious medicinal qualities, therefor whether that remark was meant for me or not, I will certainly carry on eating kim chi, now… if only it was made using organic cider vinegar!
Samsung is flooding cheap phones… thats how they got market share..
News from the UAE pushes AAPL up over $20!!! 🙂
But, but, but . . . the pundits said . . .
Sooo — uhhhh — does this mean that people in the UAE are smarter, have more taste and support the primo US company more than people in the US?
Yes that means we are smart and the samsung share is mainly for the cheap phones they make not S4 and S3.
Fussy quality conscious smart phone shoppers choose spiffy Apple!
Can someone tell me where the hell this 80% of crapdroid users are? Japan – apple. China- apple and growing – America -apple united emirates -apple
They are in Droid land! In Droid land the usage of crapdroid is at 100%!!
All androids are happy androids as long as they live in droid land.
ps, The president of Droidland is called Mr. Murgatroid!