“Touchscreen phones are on fire, comScore reports, and Apple is leading the pack,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Smartphone mobile phone adoption in the U.S. grew at a breakneck 159% rate last year, comScore reports, easily outpacing the 63% growth of the broader smartphone market,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
“By last August, nearly 34 million Americans were carrying smartphones, 23.8 million of them touchscreen devices.,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “And of those touchscreen phones, 32.9% were iPhones.”
Full article with more info and charts, including one that shows preference by age group, here.
“There’s no chance the iPhone is going to achieve any significant market share!”. – Steve Ballmer
Not to mention that 100% of U.S. MULTI-touchscreen smartphones are Apple iPhones
So why am I not surprised? First touch screen phone, first true web browsing phone, first, first, first in fact a fistful of firsts can only get you that kind of heads up on the opposition.
Where is the Palm Pee?
The world wonders.
rhymes with mud math
Pundit Takeaway: Apple is getting crushed in the physical keyboard arena.
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Where are the crackberry touch screens?
Oh wait, they are Blackberry storms….I forgot
Here’s the link to the original article. Clicking “here” at the end of the article takes you right back to the MDN article.
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/11/04/33-of-u-s-touchscreens-are-iphones/?source=yahoo_quote
@fatbas turd
… and to think someone tried, the other day, to tell me that Verizon and Apple are not competitors.
These #s don’t add up… 33% of 24 mil is 8 mil iPhones give or take… That is somewhere around ONLY 1/4 of the iPhones sold. I thought the U.S. still accounted for > 50% of iPhone sales.
Anyone bother helping me?
@chabig:
don’t forget to preface that with a laugh/chuckle.
Next weeks news: 95% of White backed, Glass Touch Screen Smartphones with built in GPS are iPhones.
@HMCIV, Good one made me LOL !!
About 6 months ago my sister came running up, “Look I got the LG Dare! It’s Verizon’s iPhone!”
Um, no.
Verizon’s POS more like.
She wanted me to teach her how to send email. I played with it for 10 minutes and went through a myriad of taps and screens to get it done. Needless to say, she never checks her email on the device. Although she wants to. “It’s just to much trouble. I’ll wait till I get back to the office.”
She would tease me for iPhones lack of MMS. “Oooh, I thought iPhone was the smartest phone in the world? It can’t even send a photo? My daughters $29 phone can do that!”
She was right. It was a flaw. (I know lots of people don’t think so)
But unlike most phones, the iPhone can be updated. Guess who received my first MMS?
@ twodales
Where? The Palm Pee Pee just went down the drain. buh bye.
Meanwhile, PC World, Wired and others are continuing their smear campaign against Apple.
“Apple’s App Store: 100000 Apps, But Most Are Unused
PC World – Jr Raphael – 2 hours ago
But, to revisit the age-old question, how much does size really matter? Does anyone actually need a selection of 100000…of anything?”
Hmm.. does anyone need 100000 garbage apps for Windows?
@Crabapple
The iPhone may be the best, and I would not use anything else as it is the only device that works seamlessly with my other Mac hardware and software, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t the first to market by about 6 months.
Wasn’t it a Samsung or LG? I just remember the OS was crud and no-one really took any notice of it.
What a BS propoganda stat. Even MDN should be ashamed of this one.
A) “Touchscreen Smartphone” as a market segment? Limiting it to a certain interface style is as irrelevant as examining the “Red Smartphone” market. Break out a meaningful market segment (devices that have the same functional capabilities)
B) iPhone isn’t broken into separate models, while LG and Samsung devices are. Apple’s number is artificially inflated, even within a fake market segment.
Booo. We are not amused.