“Apple Inc boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than a third after the country’s largest wireless carrier started selling the iPhone,” Takashi Amano reports for Bloomberg.
“Apple boosted iPhone shipments in Japan to 36.6 percent of the market in the year ended March, up from 25.5 percent a year earlier, according to Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd,” Amano reports. “The Cupertino, California-based smartphone maker shipped 14.43 million phones in Japan the past fiscal year, the researcher said.”
“After Apple, Sharp Corp. shipped 5.14 million mobile phones for 13 percent share, and Sony delivered 4.84 million handsets for a 12.3 percent share of the Japan market, according to the researcher,” Amano reports. “Samsung was No. 6 with a 5.7 percent share, the researcher said.”
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