Reuters has published a new graphic from Strategy Analytics that shows the global smartphone market at a glance.
The top three smartphone makers had increases in the second calendar quarter 2010, but only Apple gained market share year-over-year:
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The dreaded “market share” phrase.
“We are building them as fast as we can” “We are selling all we can build” Now that’s market share!
AAPL will grow higher accordingly from iPhone / iPad sales yet more important it will be from Mac computers!
Profit margins are in the high 30%.
Global sales is Crazy great.
Expansion in hiring and new Stores on target.
AAPL in 2010 = $301, 2011 = $401
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How on earth can anyone class Nokia as a smartphone. Every day I deal with customers trying to enter into the mobile application and Nokia’s tech support tells them… does it support WAP…
Gosh they’re (nokia, not the customers) are stupid. And who are the people that keep typing in the forums, the N97 is a better smart phone than the iPhone??? When it can’t even support the full fucking web application…
There are too many charts, each using differing parameters. It seems no matter what your point of view, there is a chart to support it.
I guess the only one that really matters is the one labeled “Profit.”
”.. does it support WAP…”
But does it support – ‘Doo-wop”?
So Apple is slowly kicking the ass of all the other phone manufacturers. That’s okay, the media will just switch the narrative to “Apple vs. Android”, just like the comparison was almost always “Mac vs. Windows”, rarely “Apple vs. HP” or “Apple vs. Dell”.
——RM
Funny how you don’t see many windows fan boys on MDN anymore. Its kinda obvious who the winner is in the Mac vs Win. ring.
Silence is golden.
How ever I can see where they wouldn’t really want to admit liking or being friends with monkey boy.
As you can see, my power is awesome to behold. I can provide you with crap for service, a new phone with a poorly designed antenna that results in loss of signal so you can’t do all the things you bought the phone for, and you STILL line up to hand me the big bucks.
All I have to do is pull on my black t-shirt, roll out onto a stage somewhere, acknowledge the standing o, the whoops and hollers, and you will do anything I say.
What a bunch of morons you are but your MY morons and, like I said at my last presser – I love you.
And this was before iPhone 4, so Q3 should be *really* interesting! I remember when Jobs unveiled the iPhone in Jan ’07, he said Apple just wanted *1%* of the market, and now they’re #3!
@Dave from Canada
Enjoy it while you can. Windows is going to be relegated to workstation and server functions.
In the mobile space, computers and slates, Apple and Android are going to rule.
Take a look at the internet explorer graph over the last 5 years, now go to bed and dream about windows heading down that same slippery slope.
Take heart though, like with the internet explorer group, those last 50% who are hanging on, well, they aren’t exactly the “sharpest tools in the shed” now are they? Betcha you’ll be glad to be a member of that peer group.
@Lord Jobs
My service w/ ATT and the iPhone 4 is far better than any previos phone/carrier. So that makes me a moron? You’re one of the countless illiterate idiots on the internet who don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”. Go back to middle school you fscking asshat.
Define “smartphone.” If they designated only true smartphones, Apple would look even better.
Wanted one for a long time. Finally purchased my first iPhone yesterday.
Can’t wait to receive it.
@ AAPLguy
My use of the word “your” is exactly the same as the real Steve Jobs.
In addition to all the other things he can do, Jobs has the power to change the language. “You’re” is now obsolete. It has been replaced by “your”. Steve said it and so it shall be.
Now, who’s the “fscking asshat”?
@AAPL guy
Also, the correct spelling of the Internet is with a capital “I”. Entirely predictable mistake that fscking asshats like you make all the time.
All my spelling and grammar is correct, yours is not.
Horrid reporting. I usually expect better of Reuters.
The best way to get run over is to pat yourself on the back repeatedly, having your marketing schmucks feed you feel-good stories showing you are the “best in class” or “top in category” and so forth.
Apple isn’t just competing against the “top three” smartphone vendors, it is competing against ALL mobile devices. Forget this and you will become just another Microsoft.
@ Lord Jobs: Repeating bad grammar/spelling (even intentionally, as you suggest) is just as bad, perhaps worse, than being sloppy/ignorant enough to make such juvenile mistakes in the first place. But you just can’t be civil, can you? You argue with others to defend your bad grammar, which is extremely bad taste. Your comments are irrelevant to the discussion. Get a life, you troll.
@Mike
No one posting to this site is going to be getting any Pulitzers. Arguing about grammar or writing style or use of the language is avoiding the issue being discussed.
And, I AM NOT A TROLL, but I do refuse to accept the notion that I should let Steve Jobs run my life. Most of the contributors around here are happy for him to do that, but I’m not and never will be.
He was once worthy of the adulation but he is no more. A combination of his incredible arrogance and taking us for granted by launching poorly designed and poorly functioning products should result in us looking elsewhere for our latest gadget fix. But, the legion of lemmings who follow him just keep on doing so.
I find that to be amazing behavior and I refuse to be a part of it.
@ Lord Jobs
Actually, it would be “My spelling and grammar ARE correct.” Since you’re joining two subjects, that makes them plural. Are is plural. Is is singular.
More to the point, why are you accusing people on this site of being sheep when you yourself are simply parroting the talking points that the anti-Apple media feeds you. Do you have an iPhone 4? Have you actually used one? Are your criticisms based on your actual experience or just what you read on the Internet? You realize that any moron can post stuff on the Internet, right?
Anyone who throws insults around as casually as you do proves themselves to be A) utterly infantile in terms of maturity, and B) intellectually incapable of conveying an opinion through civil discourse and carefully reasoned arguments. In the end, it adds up to a total absence of credibility.
My comment above is directed at the sociopath “Lord Jobs.” That’s a clinical diagnosis, by the way…
@ Lord Jobs:
You stated:
“I do refuse to accept the notion that I should let Steve Jobs run my life. Most of the contributors around here are happy for him to do that, but I’m not and never will be.”
Generalize much? This is a forum dedicated to Apple news. Some of us do rely on Apple and other companies as integral parts of our livelihoods. You will also find forums dedicated to Windows, Linux, UNIX, every programming language under the sun, and so forth. Do you accuse Ford fans of letting Alan Mulally run their lives? Your demeanor on this forum gives every appearance of being a troll, because you criticize others without contributing new original OBJECTIVE thought to the conversation. Read my first post — before I echoed legitimate criticism against you, I offered specific commentary and insight about the subject at hand. You might try to do the same instead of picking fights with one and all. Then we might take your seriously, and we all might learn something.
OK… here’s some specifics:
I own a MacPro, an iMac, a MBP, a iPhone G3, and a iPhone 4.
The computers are terrific machines – some of Apple’s software, including the OS, have become clunky, unreliable, and less secure. These adverse changes are a result of loss of focus in Cupertino in making excellent products. For the past year or more, Apple’s philosophy seems to have deteriorated to a Microsoft-like attitude that their releases are “good enough” not the best they can be.
Steve Jobs is also pursuing a fraudulent path of built in obsolesce in the gadgets they are making. I can promise you that a new iPad and the next generation iPhone, with a working antenna, are designed and ready to produce as soon as Apple is satisfied they have collected as much of their customers’ money as they can before they have to update. Then, everybody is expected to stand in line to upgrade – not because it’s the latest technology, but because Jobs’ marketing genius has determined it’s time.
My iPhone 4 is a total disappointment because it does not work as well as my 3G. All the complaints about antenna attenuation are profoundly present in my phone. I have taken it to the Genius bar twice and the geniuses have said it checks out fine. I have taken it to the ATT corporate store and they have replaced the sim card both times.
Still, the signal is weak, sending and receiving is unreliable and I can drop almost any call by placing the palm of my thumb over the hot spot. I refuse to accept a rubber band around the rim or any kind of case as a ‘fix’. It is not a fix – the problem of the poor antenna design is simply covered up.
All the while, Steve Jobs tells me, as one of his beloved ‘users’, that this is the best phone ever. That is a flat out lie.
What else would you like to know – there’s lots more that you probably aren’t interested in hearing. It’s easy for you to dismiss me as a TROLL and I resent that.
I am not a troll and I refuse to join the crowd celebrating the life of Steve Jobs because he is not worthy of such adulation. He used to be but he is not anymore.
@ Lord Jobs: Thank you for posting some content! I understand where you’re coming from, but I still think you’re being overly harsh.
No software is entirely secure, including Apple’s — never was, never will be. But I believe Apple’s OSes and software are about the best that one can buy commercially, and one can always take additional measures to maintain security. I don’t notice Apple’s Mac computing hardware or software getting sloppy — far from it, Apple has significantly slowed its introduction of major OS releases and Mac hardware introductions. Part of this is because much effort is being placed on iTunes/iPad/iPhone, but I know for a fact that it’s also because Apple’s development is rigorous and it refuses to release shoddy hardware if they can possibly avoid it, especially not for some artificial release schedule. Despite the hullaballoo about iPhone 4 reception, Apple has not recently pulled a Vista or Kin or PlaysForSure on us. In fact, no Apple product we’ve used in the last 15 years has been anywhere near as buggy or difficult as even the the best MS products.
The iPhone, which seems to be a chief problem for you, is somewhat of a special case. First, we assume you’re stuck on AT&T’s network, and therefore you have some problems that just aren’t going to be solved by Apple. If the iP4 isn’t good enough, why do you have one? Apple has already done everything that one could reasonably expect a company to do — free cases, free return policy, free support at Apple stores. If you’re suffering after all that, then it’s your own fault for not finding something that works better for you. AT&T, like Verizon and certain other wireless and cable providers, is famous for having totally overloaded networks, so i seriously doubt that all phone reception issues are Apple’s fault. If they are, then don’t use an iP4 — because that would be letting Steve Jobs “run your life”.
Steve Jobs isn’t lying to people. Cite a specific example if you think he did. It is reasonable for you to find the user experience to be not as “magical” as he portrays, but that’s entirely opinion. Skeptics like me NEVER take marketing info and press releases as gospel, no matter who or what is blasting the sunshine up our butts. If you think everyone on this site is worshipping his every word, you are definitely mistaken. We just know that he’s more reliable in general than the words of other electronics manufacturer CEOs — stock price history is all you need to see for that. If you don’t think that the iPhone 4 is better than the iPhone before it, then that’s your opinion. I do not own an iPhone 4, so i can’t compare. The specs, including antenna data and complaint records, seem to bear out that the iPhone 4 (flaws or not) outperforms the 3GS handily by almost any measure. Your mileage may vary, but it hardly seems appropriate to disrespect anyone, including Jobs, for introducing the new product in the best light. Show me a CEO who doesn’t extol his new product, and i will show you an unemployed former executive.
Whenever Apple decides to add T-Mobile (GSM friendly)… then LTE friendly in the future – Verizon…
Then you will see a true shift in marketshare…
They should instead assign OS marketshare: iPhone, Androids, Symbian, BBerry.
Sure it may be that Androids marketshare in total will rival Apple. But the difference is Apple keeps it all to themselves, while the Android hardware makers low ball each other to differentiate themselves.
Once the exclusive AT&T expires… bam! RIMM goes down… Nokia will have the dumb mobile market to themselves… that leaves Android builders as the only true alternative.
I know i am just repeating the obvious…