“The Apple iPhone 4S accounted for 42.8 percent of all mobile phone sales in October and helped the iPad-maker to further increase its market share [in the UK],” Matt Warman reports for The Telegraph.
“The latest smartphone data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows, however, that three quarters of the sales were from existing Apple users upgrading their handsets,” Warman reports. “Just 14 percent were upgrading from the iPhone 4 to the newer 4S.”
“Dominic Sunnebo, global consumer insight director at the panel, said that overtaking Android, even for just a month, was ‘a feat many thought impossible for Apple,'” Warman reports. “Over the last year, Apple sales ranged from 20.8 percent to 18.5 percent, and then up to 27.8 percent. The most recent rise was at the expense of Android, whose share fell over October from 49.9 per cent to 46 percent.”
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