“The two have had a devastating effect on domestic smartphone sales between 2008 and 2009,” Electronista reports. “The third-place rival, Sharp’s Windows Mobile-based Advanced W-ZERO3, had its market share cut in half to 14.6 percent this year. Willcom’s 03 also dropped from 8.3 percent to 6.8 percent, and the original W-ZERO3 had its share halved to 4.5 percent.”
Electronista reports, “Every other smartphone competitor had just a small fraction of the market.”
More info and a chart showing the full breakdown of Japanese smartphone market share here.
MacDailyNews Take: Eat crow, Wired.
46% of the Japanese market share without a tentacle porn app? Now that’s impressive!!
My 8th grader had a poll in their middle school about what the kids wanted for Christmas:
1) iPhone
2) iPod
3) Laptop
I asked her how many of her friends already had an iPhone: almost none. There is big market potential here.
More pesky rounding errors, do not believe them!
Wow, the Zero got kamikazi’d.
Just got myself a 16GS – I luuurve it.
Wouldn’t you hate to be the employee standing near Steve Ballmer when he finds out about the iPhone real market share. So, Steve, what is the REAL market share of those Windows smart phones now? How are the other countries looking to you?
And how are those Zune players doing? Ho Ho Ho!
Wow. I thought that the iPhone wasn’t gimmicky enough for the Japanese market.
note: Blackberry and Nokia are almost no-shows in freakin Japan, the tech hotbed of the world. That macrotrend, my droogies, says it all
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Wired is a pile of steaming turd.
Since apparently the iPhone’s only smartphone competition in Japan is from Win Mobile, it’s actually more of a surprise that the iPhone isn’t at 80%!
Must be because the Win Mobile phones have places to attach dangly thingies.
46% is higher than the rate in the USA or even France which is at 40%!!!
That makes Japan the biggest success for the iPhone anywhere in the world. Take that, wired’s Bruce Chen.
Who in Refmond thought of such great product name – W(indows)=Zero?
Where is Refmond? Japan?
Remember when the iPhone first came to Japan and the news morons were reporting what a “cool” reception the iPhone was receiving there? HAH!!!
So, in the two most entrenched and difficult markets to enter, Korea and japan, the iPhone is a huge hit?
Let’s put things in perspective, shall we. Check out the link below and look at the pie chart. Sharp, Panasonic, Fujitsu and NEC with a combined 72.8% of the market, while Apple is lumped in with “Others,” which add up to 22.6%.
So, the headline is deceptive and the iPhone is not doing as good in Japan as MacDailyNews likes to tout.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/iphone-nabs-46-pecent-of-japanese-smartphone-market-the-tiny-ja/
What’s deceptive? EVERYONE knows that the smartphone market is a fraction of the total cellphone market. In most countries it’s about 10%. So, if that holds in Japan, that would put Apple’s share of the total cellphoone market at less than 5%. Where’s the deception? Only those people who haven’t been paying attention the last few years would not know the difference between the smartphone market and the total cellphone market.
The pundits are overreacting.
http://www.macworld.com/article/145207/2009/12/japan_iphone.html