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Tag: smartphone market share

IDC: Apple iPhone sales dropped 11% in Western Europe as mobile phone market declined in Q113

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:29 am18 Comments

The Western European mobile phone market shrank in the first quarter of 2013…

Gartner: Apple falls below 20% in smartphone market share

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:32 pmTuesday, May 14, 201336 Comments

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled nearly 426 million units…

The Church of Market Share revisited

Friday, April 26, 2013 3:31 pmFriday, April 26, 201326 Comments

It’s an article of faith in the Church of Market Share that Android…

Apple iPhone smashes Samsung

Friday, February 22, 2013 1:40 pmFriday, February 22, 201341 Comments

The iPhone remains the most popular smartphone on the market…

World’s best-selling smartphone: Apple iPhone 5; iPhone 4S #2, third place Samsung Galaxy 3 brings up rear

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:03 amWednesday, February 20, 201322 Comments

Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S are currently the world’s two best-selling smartphone models…

Gartner: 2012 mobile phone sales declined 1.7% worldwide; Apple iPhone sales up 22.6% YOY

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:58 am7 Comments

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.75 billion units in 2012…

Apple’s worldwide market share surged from 15% to 22% on iPhone 5 strength in Q412

Friday, February 8, 2013 11:01 amFriday, February 8, 201315 Comments

Canalys has published its final mobile phone shipment estimates…

comScore: Apple #1 smartphone maker in U.S. with 36.3% market share

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 10:47 pmThursday, February 7, 201310 Comments

Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer with 36.3 percent share…

Apple owns 70% of global smartphone profits, Samsung 25%, ‘other’ 5%

Friday, February 1, 2013 9:08 amFriday, February 1, 201321 Comments

Apple Inc. brought in 70 percent of the world’s mobile phone profits…

Apple iPhone takes 53.3% of U.S. smartphone sales, Android falls to 41.9%

Monday, January 7, 2013 11:15 amMonday, January 7, 201312 Comments

Apple iPhones is taking market share back from Android…

Apple grabs record 53.3% share of U.S. smartphone market

Friday, December 21, 2012 10:35 amFriday, December 21, 201237 Comments

The latest smartphone sales data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech shows Apple…

Apple’s iPhone takes top spot from Google’s Android in U.S. smartphone market share

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 8:29 amTuesday, November 27, 201223 Comments

Early success for the iPhone 5 smartphone has helped Apple to overtake…

Apple and Google: Why current market share results don’t matter yet

Monday, November 26, 2012 12:30 pmMonday, November 26, 201210 Comments

The strategies that Apple and Google are pursuing are winning..

Gartner: Worldwide mobile phone sales shrank 3% in Q312; smartphone sales surged 47%

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:32 am6 Comments

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units…

IDC: Google’s Android hits 75% smartphone market share worldwide

Friday, November 2, 2012 4:01 pmFriday, November 2, 201244 Comments

The Android smartphone operating system was found on three out of every four smartphones…

Apple rakes in 71% of the world’s smartphone profits

Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:02 pmSaturday, September 8, 201224 Comments

Even before Apple has announced the name or the shape of its next iPhone…

Apple utterly dominates mobile device market with 6% market share – and 77% of the profits

Monday, August 6, 2012 8:49 am19 Comments

Samsung shipped about 50 million smartphones last quarter…

China smartphone market grows 164% YOY, Apple’s iOS takes 17.3% share

Monday, July 9, 2012 12:39 pm2 Comments

Even without availability on China’s largest mobile provider…

Beleaguered Nokia hit with class-action lawsuit over weak Lumia Windows Phone sales, deteriorating market share

Friday, May 4, 2012 10:17 amFriday, May 4, 201223 Comments

Nokia has been hit with a class-action lawsuit charging the company with making promises it couldn’t keep…

Android is either ‘winning’ because Apple is letting it, or losing

Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:50 amThursday, May 3, 201215 Comments

Over the past few days, both comScore and NPD have put out data showing that Android…

Apple and Samsung: Bad blood gets badder

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:01 pmWednesday, April 4, 201229 Comments

The smartphone war is often depicted as a battle between iOS and…

Apple iPhone poised to gain even more market share, surpass Android, survey says

Monday, April 2, 2012 9:55 pm16 Comments

Apple is poised to take smartphone market share away from Google‘s Android…

Nielsen: Apple’s U.S. iPhone market share surges as Android stalls

Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:29 am12 Comments

Almost half (49.7%) of U.S. mobile subscribers now own smartphones…

comScore: Apple’s iPhone now matching Android in growth rate; beleaguered RIM BlackBerry continues swoon

Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:20 pmThursday, February 2, 20129 Comments

Apple maintained its #2 position, growing 2.2 percentage points to 29.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market…

Apple’s iOS passes Google’s Android to take U.S. smartphone market share crown

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:32 amWednesday, January 25, 201242 Comments

Booming demand for the latest iPhone model helped Apple beat all phones using Google’s Android…

iPhone accounted for nearly 40% of U.S. smartphone sales in 3Q11 as world waited for next-gen iPhone

Friday, November 18, 2011 9:03 am10 Comments

Nielsen’s third quarter survey of mobile users seemed to reaffirm what many have been saying…

Nielsen: Apple the #1 U.S. smartphone maker; held steady ahead of record iPhone 4S launch

Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:03 amThursday, November 3, 20119 Comments

Nielsen’s third quarter survey of mobile users reveals that while only 43 percent…

Analyst: iPhone 5 may double Apple’s market share

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 5:01 pmWednesday, August 3, 20119 Comments

Apple could double its share of the smartphone market, based on a survey…

IDC: Apple closes in on Nokia; now #2 in worldwide smartphone market share

Friday, May 6, 2011 10:07 am6 Comments

The worldwide smartphone market grew 79.7% year over year in the first quarter of 2011…

Gartner: Microsoft Windows Phone market share to surpass Apple’s iOS in 2015

Thursday, April 7, 2011 1:30 pmThursday, July 30, 201559 Comments

Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011…

Apple’s iPhone 4 for Verizon was most acquired handset in U.S. in February

Friday, April 1, 2011 9:27 pmFriday, April 1, 201117 Comments

For the three month average period ending in February, 234 million Americans…

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