Apple outsmarts opposition in mobile wars

“New figures show that Apple has significantly outsold smartphone brands that are trying to challenge it for Christmas sales in the UK, in spite of new models from its biggest competitors,” Daniel Thomas reports for The Financial Times.

“According to research – seen by the Financial Times – by GfK, which compiles sales data from the large operators, Apple’s iPhone 4s was the highest-selling phone in the four weeks to December 9,” Thomas reports. “The model accrued almost a quarter of all sales, having only been introduced in October.”

Thomas reports, “In total, five versions of Apple’s iPhone were in the top 15 handsets sold in the first week of December, accounting for more than 37 per cent of sales, according to the most recent data from GfK. One of the phones, the 3Gs, was launched more than two and a half years ago.”

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8 Comments

  1. > In total, five versions of Apple’s iPhone were in the top 15 handsets… accounting for more than 37 per cent of sales…

    And I’ll bet Apple accounted for 90% of the overall profit. The competition probably gave their stuff away in special offers and sales (to keep up), while Apple got full retail price PLUS a large subsidy from the carrier.

  2. Expected. Really, look what else is out there. Cheap plastic presented in at least 70 different confused models. Apple Inc. did it right, Stainless Steel & Glass in a beautiful package with the best software to boot.

  3. In other breaking news from England . . .
    Researchers from Great Britain have found that water is wet. It was somewhat of a shock to English scientists but the general population are in an uproar over this new found controversial finding.

  4. The best time to buy AAPL is just around the turn of the century, When Steve Jobs was about to finish destroying the company.
    If you can’t do that, now seems like the best available substitute.

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