“This week, some research firms gave a clearer picture of just how big Apple has become in China,” Brian X. Chen reports for The New York Times. “Both Kantar Worldpanel and Canalys, firms that track global smartphone sales, said Apple’s iOS mobile operating system gained market share in China at the expense of Google’s Android. Chris Jones, an analyst for Canalys, said that in the fourth quarter of last year, iOS was in 12.3 percent of the smartphones sold in China, a sharp increase from 5 percent in the previous quarter. ”
“Canalys estimates that Apple is now the top smartphone vendor in China,” Chen reports. “Kantar Worldpanel found slightly different results. It focused its research on so-called urban China — a portion of mainland China where smartphones are more commonplace. Kantar also found that Apple’s iOS gained at the expense of Android. But the firm found that Apple was the No. 2 vendor in the region, with about 21.5 percent of the market, behind the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi (29.2 percent).”
“Carolina Milanesi, a Kantar analyst, said Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which both have larger screens than previous iPhones, clearly drove the growth,” Chen reports. “‘The success that Apple is seeing is certainly coming from the larger screen,’ she said. She added that sales there of the larger iPhone 6 Plus surpassed sales of the iPhone 6 in December.”
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As fast as the situation turns, well within one product cycle, I just don’t think these headlines hold much meaning for me. I think it’s great people like iPhones, but weather 75 million or 1 million like them, it does not matter. They are here to stay, and that’s what’s important to me. I can rest assured, 5 years, 10 years from now, there will be an iPhone in my pocket. 🙂
It turns out to be Apple’s Stormy “Weather” with the competition blown away.
Seriously, and the iPhone hates MDN’s website. Fix it please.
As a rule, I can only fix two words. Unfortunately I had to leave that one alone. Just be glad I can say the letter “C”
“New data shows….” They does? Come on, people.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that, Apple’s main mobile devices might be injected in your ear lobe and recharged by body heat by then, haha… 🙂
I talked to my son about something similar. I will not EVER except an implant, unless it’s replacing a failed organ. So no RFID, no chips. I will claim religious beliefs prevent it.
Leave it to the analists to poo poo this one too…
You said anal. lol
Huge growth at expense of SamDung is how I am reading!
That should be the title.
Which mean, next quarter will be a blockbuster ones as well.
As a rule, I can only fix two words. Unfortunately I had to leave that one alone. Just be glad I can say the letter “C”
Duplicate.
Meaningless drivel. Apple doesn’t give a rip about market share. They only care about the user experience for the high-end user. They only compete with themselves.
…At this point in time, yes. But bring on the REAL COMPETITION! It’s good for everyone. It ain’t no Xiaomi or Samsung cheap knockoff wannabes.