“Sales of the iPhone reached 7.25 million units in all of 2011, making Apple the top smartphone vendor in the country,” AppleInsider reports.
“The data comes from a report issued by MM Research, translated by Macotakara on Thursday, which shows that Apple represented 30 percent of smartphone sales in Japan,” AppleInsider reports. “Among all cell phones, including ‘feature’ phones, Apple took 17 percent of the market.”
AppleInsider reports, “Though Apple was the leading hardware vendor, Google’s Android was the most popular mobile operating system platform among smartphones sold in Japan in 2011. Google’s Android represented 69 percent, meaning that together, Google and Apple controlled a whopping 99 percent of smartphone sales by platform in Japan.”
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