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Tag: smartphone market share

iPhone SE squeezing market share from Chinese phone makers

Thursday, April 21, 2016 3:44 pmThursday, April 21, 20163 Comments

Due to intensifying competition in the China market as a result of the release of Apple’s iPhone SE…

CIRP: Apple’s U.S. mobile market share climbed from 28% to 40% YOY

Thursday, April 21, 2016 10:55 amThursday, April 21, 201610 Comments

Consumer Intelligence Research Partners is reporting that Apple saw it’s U.S. mobile market share climb…

How Apple sucks the profit out of mobile phones

Sunday, February 14, 2016 3:18 pmSunday, February 14, 201617 Comments

With 17.2% of the smartphone market in 2015, Apple captured 91% of the profit…

Samsung widens worldwide smartphone unit share lead

Thursday, January 28, 2016 2:02 pmThursday, January 28, 201611 Comments

Global smartphone shipments grew 6 percent annually from 380.1 million units in Q4 2014 to 404.5 million in Q4 2015

Apple iPhone to take share as smartphone growth slows

Friday, November 27, 2015 4:30 pm12 Comments

Chinese users shifting to better smartphones and more US users planning to upgrade this year than last year…

Apple’s new iPhone 6s/Plus: One of the biggest changes is how you’ll pay for them

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 10:02 am6 Comments

When Apple Inc. unveils its next iPhone on Wednesday, the biggest update may be in how most consumers will pay…

IDC: Apple iPhone’s higher margins are much more valuable than chasing market share

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 5:33 pmTuesday, August 25, 201510 Comments

IDC projects that Apple’s iOS shipments will grow from 192.7 million in 2014 to 269.6 million in 2019…

Kantar: Apple’s iOS share grows worldwide

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 10:55 amWednesday, August 5, 20153 Comments

The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech…

Nomura ups Apple to ‘Buy’ on strong iPhone growth, increasing Android switchers

Friday, July 31, 2015 3:45 pmFriday, July 31, 201516 Comments

We expect Apple to extend its share gains in 2016…

Samsung drops $10 billion in market value on poor demand for Galaxy S6 phones

Friday, July 31, 2015 9:28 amFriday, July 31, 201516 Comments

Sluggish sales of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S6 smartphones…

Samsung will never overcome Apple’s advantage in mobile device profitability

Thursday, July 30, 2015 2:39 pmThursday, July 30, 201511 Comments

Samsung’s June quarter earnings release contained a steep y/y decline…

Apple surges, Microsoft collapses in worldwide mobile phone market share

Thursday, July 30, 2015 1:58 pmThursday, July 30, 201528 Comments

Apple grew 35 percent annually and shipped 47.5 million iPhones…

Apple iPhone shipments show impressive growth as Samsung falls

Thursday, July 30, 2015 10:27 amThursday, July 30, 201514 Comments

Global smartphone shipments grew 15 percent annually to reach 340 million units…

IDC: Apple’s iPhone sales up 34.9%, Samsung’s phone sales down 2.3%

Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:55 pmThursday, July 23, 20155 Comments

Apple’s second quarter proved to be its biggest fiscal third quarter ever…

Apple owns the smartphone market

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 12:05 pmTuesday, July 14, 20158 Comments

There are over 1,000 smartphone manufacturers in the world, but Apple rules them all..

Apple’s iPhone owns 92% of smartphone industry’s profits

Monday, July 13, 2015 8:31 amThursday, July 30, 201514 Comments

Apple Inc. recorded 92% of the total operating income…

Apple closes in on struggling Samsung in Western Europe smartphone unit share

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:13 am1 Comment

Apple’s shipments climbed from 26.9 million to 30.9 million…

Samsung’s iPhone 6/Plus nightmare unfolding before its eyes

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 11:33 am15 Comments

Samsung’s sales and revenues have been suffering lately…

Apple, with high-end iPhones alone, poised to outsell Samsung’s total smartphone sales

Monday, January 26, 2015 3:55 pmMonday, January 26, 20157 Comments

Strong sales of Apple Inc. ’s new iPhones are pushing the company close to outselling Samsung’s entire range of phones…

comScore: Apple gains U.S. smartphone share ahead of iPhone 6

Friday, September 5, 2014 4:33 pmFriday, September 5, 20144 Comments

Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with…

Fitch: Samsung and Apple to lose global smartphone market share

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 9:35 am18 Comments

Samsung’s and Apple’s global smartphone shipment market share will decline…

Apple iPhone increases U.S. smartphone market share; Android loses share to iOS

Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:37 pmThursday, August 7, 201411 Comments

Apple ranked as the top U.S. smartphone manufacturer with…

The fact is, Samsung never caught up with Apple in the smartphone race

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 4:02 pmWednesday, July 9, 201414 Comments

Apple has repeatedly proven that it can dominate the high-end of almost any market it enters…

Beleaguered Microsoft’s Windows Phone: Dead as a doornail

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 9:55 amWednesday, July 9, 201449 Comments

Beleaguered Microsoft’s smartphone efforts are beyond pathetic…

Kantar Worldpanel: Apple took smartphone market share in Q1, Windows Phone falters

Monday, April 28, 2014 8:38 amMonday, April 28, 20147 Comments

The latest smartphone sales data…

Apple and the market share myth

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:01 pmWednesday, April 16, 201416 Comments

Some believe that Macs were the most popular personal computers on the planet…

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been completely misunderstood by too many

Friday, February 21, 2014 1:29 pmFriday, February 21, 201440 Comments

The general consensus seems to be that Apple simply doesn’t care…

Apple dips a toe in the market share waters by resuming iPhone 4 production for emerging markets

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 8:38 am29 Comments

The iPhone’s market share tells the tale of the two Apples perfectly…

Strategy Analytics: Samsung ships new all-time record number of smartphones

Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:32 pmTuesday, January 28, 201422 Comments

Global smartphone shipments grew 41 percent annually to reach a record 990 million units in 2013

Why Android’s ’80 percent market share’ might only represent half of all smartphone users

Friday, January 10, 2014 12:03 pmFriday, January 10, 201413 Comments

Here’s the reality…

iPhone 5s remains the world’s bestselling phone; helps power Apple from 6th to 3rd in China

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:07 pm12 Comments

According to Counterpoint’s Monthly Market Pulse report for October 2013…

Gartner: Apple’s Q313 iPhone sales up 23.2 percent YOY; market share drops to 12.1 percent worldwide

Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:00 amThursday, November 14, 201312 Comments

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 455.6 million units…

Apple will continue to ignore Android market share stats all the way to the bank

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:36 pmTuesday, October 29, 201351 Comments

Android can have the Hee Haw demographic. Apple doesn’t want it or need it…

IDC: Record smartphone shipments grow the market 38.8% in Q313, strong Christmas quarter looms

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:01 amTuesday, October 29, 20134 Comments

The worldwide smartphone market grew 38.8% year over year in the third quarter of 2013…

iPhone 5s powers Apple back to U.S. smartphone market share lead in September – despite only being available for 10 days of month

Monday, October 21, 2013 4:01 pmMonday, October 21, 201314 Comments

The new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5 made Apple the US top smartphone seller in September…

Apple will never make a cheap iPhone

Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:05 am41 Comments

Many analysts and Apple-watchers thought that the plastic-backed iPhone 5C…

Apple’s iPhone share expands to 43% of U.S. smartphone market

Tuesday, September 3, 2013 8:26 am9 Comments

That represents a 7.8 percentage point increase year over year…

IDC: Apple’s iPhone posted 20% YOY growth in Q213

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 2:02 pmWednesday, August 7, 201317 Comments

Vendors shipped a total of 236.4 million smartphones in Q213, up 51.3%…

Canalys: Samsung and Apple both grew global smartphone shipments, but both lost share to Chinese vendors

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 3:33 pmTuesday, August 6, 201318 Comments

Canalys has published its final Q2 2013 smartphone shipment estimates…

Smashing Apple: Is Strategy Analytics in Samsung’s pocket?

Saturday, August 3, 2013 9:07 am41 Comments

It may be no accident that Samsung and Strategy Analytics…

Apple’s iOS smartphone market share growing faster than Android in US, UK and France

Monday, July 29, 2013 5:02 pmMonday, July 29, 20139 Comments

The market research group reported a 51.5 percent share for…

Samsung knocks Apple off the handset profit throne

Friday, July 26, 2013 5:00 pmFriday, July 26, 201376 Comments

Apple has fallen off the profit throne…

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