“In a note to clients issued Tuesday, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster reported the results of his annual cell phone survey,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Asked what phone they were going to buy next, 65% said an Apple iPhone, 19% said a Google Android, 6.5% said ‘not a smartphone,’ 6% said ‘I don’t know,’ and 2.5% said a Research in Motion Blackberry,” P.E.D. reports. “51% of respondents who planned on making the iPhone their next smartphone (whether current iPhone users or not) said they were waiting for the iPhone 5.”
P.E.D. reports, “94.2% of iPhone users plan to buy an iPhone for their next phone, improving upon last year’s rate of 93%… Munster estimates that more than half of his projected 170 million iPhone sales for fiscal 2013 are already, as he puts it, ‘in the bag.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Bloodbath: Revenge of the Innovator. The tide has turned and it is blood red. Coming this fall.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “David E.” for the heads up.]
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