“A new technology market research report published by Hong Kong–based Counterpoint late last week found that Apple was the leading 4G LTE smartphone supplier in the fourth quarter of 2014 with 35% market share globally,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple. “The report noted that Apple topped the chart due to rising demand for its new iPhones and that one in three LTE phones shipped on the planet was an iPhone.”
“One of the most important stats found in the report was that Apple captured almost two-third of the total LTE phone revenues during the quarter and almost 80% of the premium LTE phone revenue,” Purcher reports. “Samsung was the second largest 4G LTE smartphone supplier in the quarter with 19% market share.”
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Smart phones vs dumb phones.
Now the truth starts coming out.
I seem to somewhat remember when the earliest LTE chips came out and all the flagship Android smartphones were using them, the pundits came down hard on Apple for not using them and yelling how far behind Apple was for not jumping on 4G. Apple said they weren’t using those chips because they were too power hungry and the demand wasn’t quite there yet. Times change and Apple seems to quickly adapt.
But, but, but, Android has a bigger market share!
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And leave it to clueless consumer-faced companies like Rite Aid, CVS, Best Buy, WalMart, and now even Toyota to not support that affluent portion of their customer base wanting to avail themselves of iPhone’s built-in services such as ApplePay and CarPlay. THESE CONVENIENT AND SECURE SERVICES ARE PART OF THE REASONS WE PREFER TO BUY AND USE IPHONES!