U.S. smartphone shipments declined 24% YoY in Q2 2023, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor data. Apple iPhone dominates…
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New movie ‘BlackBerry’ explores how Research In Motion lost the signal
Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, the thing people used before Steve Jobs gave the world the seminal iPhone, gets the “Social Network”…
Android users upgrading to Apple iPhone at 5-year high
Since 2020, those who formerly settled for Android phones are accounting for an increased percentage of buyers of real iPhones…
Beleaguered Blackberry to sell mobile patents for up to $900 million
Beleaguered BlackBerry (née Research In Motion), one of several examples of iPhone roadkill, said on Tuesday it would sell patents…
Apple iPhone increases global domination of growing premium smartphone market
The global premium ($600 or more wholesale price) smartphone market, which is increasingly dominated by Apple’s market-defining iPhone, grew…
iPhone a ‘must have’ for Gen Z worldwide as Apple takes smartphone market share
Consumers around the world are increasingly choosing Apple’s iPhones over derivative Android iPhone wannabes, with younger Gen Z users…
Apple iPhone dominates smartphone market with 85% profit share
Apple’s iconic iPhone set a new all-time 85% profit share high from global smartphone sales in 2022, navigating a challenging…
Apple iPhone dominates Q4 smartphone shipments, market share despite CCP ‘Zero COVID’ factory shutdowns
Apple’s iPhone dominated worldwide smartphone shipments and increased market share over imitators, according to IDC…
Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 – IDC
Apple was the only top phone vendor to increase shipments in Q3 as worldwide smartphone shipments declined 9.7% year over year…
Apple iPhone dominates global premium smartphone market with 57% share
Apple captured 57% of premium smartphone market sales as the global premium smartphone market ($400 and above wholesale price)…
Apple iPhone grows 19% to take dominating 51% market share in North America
Apple grew 19% to achieve a 51% market share, powered by the strong performance of the iPhone 13. Samsung grew just 1% for 27% market share…
Apple’s global smartphone market share surges 20% YoY leaving the imitators behind
pple has made the most significant gains in the smartphone market share over the past year as competitors struggle to catch up…
Beleaguered Samsung slashes prices on performance-hobbled Galaxy S22 phone
Beleaguered Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 iPhone wannabe has taken a battering from reports of hobbled performance and has seen carriers…
iPhone took 44% of total global smartphone revenue in 2021, Apple’s highest share ever
Apple’s revolutionary iPhone led in 2021 global smartphone market revenue with annual revenue of $196 billion. That’s 44% of total…
Apple’s A15 Bionic-powered iPhone 13 lineup destroys Samsung’s latest Galaxy S22
Samsung’s latest Galaxy S22 phone lineup lags woefully behind Apple’s A15 Bionic-powered iPhone 13 lineup in performance benchmark testing…
China’s Xiaomi vows ‘War of Life and Death’ against Apple iPhone; pledges to open 20,000 retail stores in China
Apple iPhone knockoff peddler Xiaomi will ratchet up its challenge to Apple by focusing on the high-end segment of the global smartphone…
BlackBerry ends support for all its classic phones
BlackBerry, what’s left of it, has announced that the legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry…
China’s Oppo cuts jobs after trying to compete with Apple’s iPhone
After trying to compete in the premium smartphone segment with Apple’s iPhone, phone maker Oppo is cutting around 20% of staff in…
Who stands to gain from LG’s smartphone exit?
LG Electronics’ move to kill its failed smartphone business is expected to create more opportunities for Samsung than other companies…
South Korean dishwasher maker LG pulls the plug on smartphones
South Korean dishwasher maker LG Electronics has pulled the plug on its failed smartphone division after failing to find a buyer…
LG Electronics mulls exit from smartphone business
LG Electronics may exit the smartphone business after losing about 5 trillion won (US$4.5 billion) over the past five years. Its CEO…
Apple’s App Store generated more than double the revenue of Google’s Play Store in 2020
Apple’s App Store has once again captured the bulk of the revenue generated between the two major platforms, iOS and the derivative Android…
Google underwhelms with latest Pixel phones
Google today unveiled a pair of underwhelming 5G Android smartphones: the Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4a 5G with features and lower price points…
Apple iPhone’s U.S. Q220 market share ballooned to 47%
Vendors ranging from the industry’s progenitor to South Korean dishwasher makers shipped 31.9 million smartphones…
Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun caught posting from his Apple iPhone
Today Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO and co-founder, inadvertently revealed that he uses an Apple iPhone at least occasionally, and not one Xiaomi’s…
Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down
Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the comnpany confirmed Wednesday…
Samsung warns on phone sales amid strong demand for Apple iPhones
Samsung warned of weaker phone sales on Thursday after Apple set a new all-time quarterly revenue record and gave a positive iPhone sales outlook…
Bloomberg reviews Google’s Pixel 4: Can’t beat Apple’s iPhone 11; blends into the crowd of iPhone wannabes
Google’s Pixel smartphones have always been defined by iPhone-beating cameras, backed by the know-how of its software coders…
Google’s new Pixel 4 is an overpriced disappointment; get a real iPhone instead
Google today announced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones at an anticlimactic event in New York…
Beleaguered Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has ended mobile telephone production in China…
IDC: 2019 will be challenging for iPhone, shipments expected to drop to 177.9 million, down 14.8% year over year
A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows signs of market recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020…
Apple dominates the global premium smartphone market
The premium segment remains the most difficult for OEMs to penetrate as it requires brand power to command such a high price across the world…
Sony sees its anemic smartphone business as ‘indispensable’
Sony Corp sees the smartphone business as indispensable to its brand portfolio…
Why Apple’s TV app port isn’t to Android, but to Samsung’s Tizen
It once seemed necessary that Apple’s iTunes worked on Windows PCs…
Apple continues to dominate premium smartphone market with 51% global share
Apple continues to lead global premium smartphone segment by capturing more than half of the market…
Microsoft recommends switching to iPhone or Android as it prepares to pull plug on Windows phones
Microsoft says anyone who still uses its Windows 10 mobile platform — once called Windows Phone — should switch over to an iPhone…
The maturing of the smartphone industry is cause for celebration
Analysts reckon that the number of smartphones sold in 2018 will be slightly lower than in 2017…
After years of mocking Apple, slavish copier Samsung kills headphone jack in latest iPhone wannabe
Samsung’s first smartphone without a 3.5mm headphone jack appears…
Why iPhones and Android wannabes will get more expensive
Remember when the only phones with over-$1,000 price tags were made of leather, ruby and sapphire crystal?
iPhone owners happier, richer, have more friends than those who settle for Android knockoffs
Apple iPhone users tend to have more money, more friends, and are generally happier…
Around 1 in 5 Android phone owners plan to switch to an Apple iPhone
Among Android brands, the intention to switch to Apple’s iPhone has grown dramatically while loyalty to Android has softened…
Huawei crashes Apple store queues to hand out its own chargers in battery critique stunt
The Chinese phone maker took to the streets…
