“Motorola sold a total of 8.5 million phones in the quarter, while Apple sold 8.8 million iPhones,” Svensson reports. “Four years ago, when the Razr was still popular, Motorola sold 46.1 million phones in the first quarter.”
“The Schaumburg, Ill., company has been trying to turn around that long slide in phone sales by focusing on new smart phones, including the Droid,” Svensson reports. “That strategy is bearing fruit, but too slowly to compensate for the drop in overall phone sales. Motorola sold 2.3 million smart phones in the first three months of the year.”
Svennsson reports, “As a whole, Motorola earned $69 million, or 3 cents per share in the quarter… Revenue fell 6.1 percent to $5.04 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters were expecting $5.1 billion in revenue.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iDon’t sell enough phones to lead the market anymore.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dominic P.” for the heads up.]
Born in the USA
Hoooooray way to go Apple
goodbye MOTO
see you in my dust
They’ll sell even less when Verizon starts promoting the new Droid, which is made by HTC.
Is that Apple saying that Apple US phone maker, or that Apple sells the most phones in the US?
Slightly different. Both huge for sure.
Incredible.
It took less than three years for Apple to unseat Motorola!!!
Zero to 8.8 milion = FAST fury.
Congrats AAPL!
Keep in mind, MOTO (just like Adobe) was offered a front seat on the iPhone style phone express…..and they screwed it up completely. The iPhone exists b/c of Moto’s incompetence.
just my $0.02
They went from number one in smart phone marketshare, to number one period.
That is huge.
Today the US, tomorrow the world!
amazing to think that’s just with one model . . . how many different models does moto have 3000?
This is just phones sold… Just think how much higher Apple’s REVENUE is — all of their phones are smartphones, while only a quarter of Moto’s are high end.
46.1 million to 8.5 million? There’s a trendline to be proud of.
Buy one get five POS Motorola for FREE! That will give them the lead for shipping phones.
I like our strategy, I like it a lot.
That’s quite an accomplishment, considering Motorola sells mostly cheap “non-smart” phones and Apple sells ONLY expensive iPhones. But it is actually more of an indication of how badly Motorola is doing. Apple did it selling essentially two models, the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, offered only through ONE wireless carrier in their largest market.
That is why I’ll keep up with my fine Windows Mobile smart phone and my HP (I’ll dump my Dell and switch to HP since it bought Palm). One day (hope not too late) this pice of technology will pass Iphone market share and you MAC iSheep will praise a real OS.
Our slip, your loss®
And… it doesn’t have a keyboard!
How much did the ass-hat CEO of Moto take home for such a stellar job?
BTW- Apple designs and markets phones- they do not make any.
I have a Motorola phone. I wish that I didn’t.
Well, Accountability 101, you had to ask … (from April, ’09):
“Last year’s biggest payday went to Sanjay Jha of Motorola (MOT, Fortune 500), who was lured away from Qualcomm in August to try to turn around Motorola’s struggling mobile phone business. Jha earned $104.4 million in total compensation, although almost all of it – $103.6 million – came from stock options and grants. Jha’s co-CEO at Motorola, Gregory Brown, had a 2008 pay package that totaled $24.2 million”
Apple does not make any phones in the US. In fact, it makes no phones at all. So what about your headline? True or false.
@ Charel
Check where Motorola manufactures their phones. Both companies design in the US only.
Motorola??? LoooL … Biggest phone maker on the US? Some one has to be kidding me. I thought Motorola was dead. How can thing go soooo bad for Motorola when they sell as many phones as Apple, I don’t get it. Are they just giving them away for free or what is the deal here???