“Apple Inc’s iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July, its first full month on sale, accounting for 1.8 percent of all U.S. mobile handset sales, research group iSuppli said on Tuesday,” Reuters reports.
“iSuppli reiterated its forecast that Apple would sell 4.5 million iPhones this year, rising to more than 30 million in 2011,” Reuters reports.
“The two models of the iPhone [4GB and 8GB] on the market sold more than Research in Motion’s Blackberry series, the entire Palm portfolio and any individual smartphone model from Motorola, Nokia or Samsung,” Reuters reports.
“Most buyers of iPhones in the United States in July were male, under 35 and had a college degree, iSuppli said,” Reuters reports. “A quarter of those who bought an iPhone switched to operator AT&T, which has an exclusive service agreement for the iPhone in the United States.”
Reuters reports, “‘While iSuppli has not collected historical information on this topic, it’s likely that the speed of the iPhone’s rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market,’ iSuppli said.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Magicpony” for the heads up.]
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Go iPhone.
Apple continues to create and build well thought out devices to innovate the market… Nokia’s phone is a sad knock off.
j
When you look at the kludgy crap it’s comprting with, this comes as no surprise.
Apple, home of the unprecedented.
And when Version 2.0 of the big boy comes out, along with any edition of “iPhone Nano,” Nokia, RIM, Motorola, et al., will be crapping their pants.
However, I’m still going to wait for MSFT’s upcoming (no doubt) “iTurd” to complete the Zune line.
I was at a local outdoor festival yesterday and I saw iPhones all over the place. And several people that had them were showing them off to others. I was asked about mine once and got oohs and aahs from strangers.
This is only the beginning.
I wouldn’t say the rise is unprecedented. Every few years a new “fad” phone comes out and takes a big chunk of the market. The last one was the Motorola RAZR.
The question is can the iPhone sustain its growth?
“Technology analyst Rob Enderle predicts that the GPhone — if it exists — will be an iPhone killer.”
“Apple Inc’s iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July, its first full month on sale, accounting for 1.8 percent of all U.S. mobile handset sales…
Well this is to be expected for the pent up initial demand.
However it’s foolish to assume that rate will continue always because people are still locked into contracts and getting phones with close of some of the capabilities of the iPhone for free, with another new contract of course.
Apple is going to need to constantly update the iPhone with new features to beat the copycats that are giving them away for free.
@jeff
the last ‘fad’ from Apple was the iPod. And to answer your question, as you must know, as was predicted widely in the press’ it only lasted a year… oh no, of course. The iPod is still here.. in its 6th year and going like a train.
iPhone a fad? Not likely, as much as Nokia might wish it to be…
when iphone comes to Europe my nokia phone will be in the trash for ever.
The Apple iPhone is doomed to failure. The Microsoft iPhone killer will soon be released:
The iPHzune, and of course it will be awesome.
@NoMattethePratt
Yeah, I see lot’s of iPhone lookalikes being given away for free..now or in the next three years.
Are you for real?
Imagine what the iPhone will be like in Version 4.
Like the little and hidden letter in the investment funds:
Present profitabiities don’t forecast future ones
“I was asked about mine once and got oohs and aahs from strangers.”
Phwoar. You saucy little mare!
Here in Austalia – when you call the Apple online store in Sydney – you get a message that if you are calling to purchase the new iPhone please press “1” – there are that many questions and requests.
I see “the other companies” scrambling here in Oz to nail down more of the SmartPhoen market before the iPhone hits. There is alot of fear uncertainty and doubt. By the way, it is against the law here in Oz to sell a “locked phone” without providing an immediate unlock capability. So, the land of Oz is the place ot hve n iPhone when they hit here.
Can’t wait! And I am truly happy for Apple. I was one of the first iPod “brick’ owners. Before ITMS – only iTunes. People thought I was nuts. Yep, like a squirrel.
For all of the naysayers – when Apple is willing and able to cut loose to the rest of the world – watch the nubers sore.
Market model = 50% of sales outsideof USA. Makes perfect economic sense to me!
sorry for the typo – it is 01:23 here in Oz…
🙁
cheers..
iPHzune – sounds so cool, can’t wait for the commercials.
Oh man, I love buying crap.
Only to toss last years crap out and buy the long awaited candy crap of the new year. Yup.
Ya see – companies need to hear, and listen to the consumer if they want success these days.
Apple is a model to fallow or just simply learn from.
The real problem is AT&T;.
I walked into an AT&T;store this weekend
to check out the plans before walking across
the street to the Apple Store, and I was so
disappointed with AT&T;that I walked out.
The iPhone is the most gorgeous object I
have seen in a long time, but AT&T;is a
horrible match.
I’m waiting until some changes happen.
I don’t believe any of this so called ‘research’ and ‘analysis’. The iPhone doesn’t run anything close to Windows Mobile, so who would want one?
You want to see smartphone sales figures that blow everything and anything away? Wait until the Zune phone comes out. Gonna be awesome. Last I checked the iPhone still didn’t come in brown. Suck it, MAC lemmings.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@baukunst
Your comment inspires me to wonder what would happen if VOiP were in such a state that a telephone developer could distribute their product with service without having to get into bed with the big cell phone companies. I wonder how close we are to a possibility like that. With phones that have WiFi built in it seems like the infra-structure is there, of course coverage would be nowhere near what cellular coverage is now, but if the demand for it was great enough perhaps that would drive the WiFi infrastructure to expand much faster. That would be a good thing not only for voice communications but for wireless computing in general.
” AT&T;is a horrible match.”
Would you have rathered T-Mobile? And their pink stores? It’s the only other GSM provider here. Do you think GSM was a mistaken choice? Why? ( I sure don’t- it’s the european standard.)
@Mr. Peabody and @Wade:
I understand the GSM situation but I think Mr. Peabody has the idea here. I can’t get T-Mobile or AT&T;as a local provider where I live. I was very ready to buy an iPhone when in Denver this weekend and bring it home. The service plan was something like $60.00 for 450 minutes!!?? Who in the world uses 450 minutes a month? It is an absolute rip-off. So, I didn’t buy. The main thing is that the purchasing and user experience is radically different between AT&T;and Apple.
As for whether GSM is the right choice, I don’t know. I just want a damn phone that works and works well. Is beautiful and syncs with Address Book. That is the iPhone and AT&T;is too expensive. It’s too bad because it doesn’t have to be this way.
ATT was the right choice, because they have the largest network in the US and they use GSM, the most common world-wide standard. ATT may not be great, but in the US it was the best available.
How much longer will it be about the “initial demand” and not the excellent word of mouth being spread like an infectious disease that sucks people in as their contracts with other carriers expire?