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Tag: unit share

Apple Music continues to take share from Spotify

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:34 am1 Comment

Apple’s ability to promote its own services like Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple Pay…

Apple is still struggling to sell iPhones in the world’s hottest markets

Tuesday, September 11, 2018 2:26 pmTuesday, September 11, 201815 Comments

Apple is gearing up for a revamp of its iPhone lineup, but it’ll need to do a lot more to catch its rivals…

Apple’s cheaper iPhones are not the volume sellers the pundits predicted; those are iPhone X and 8/Plus

Thursday, July 5, 2018 5:35 pmThursday, July 5, 201812 Comments

Apple is simply selling significantly more high-end units than Samsung…

Apple iPhone dominates smartphone industry with 87% profit share in Q417

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 3:01 pmWednesday, February 28, 20184 Comments

Apple captured 87% of smartphone industry profits in the fourth quarter…

Where it all went wrong for China’s Apple iPhone-knockoff maker Xiaomi

Friday, August 19, 2016 1:30 pmFriday, August 19, 20168 Comments

It was just four days after Christmas 2014, and for Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi…

IDC’s Mac unit sales estimates look too low

Monday, October 12, 2015 9:14 amMonday, October 12, 20159 Comments

Over the past four years the Mac unit increase from the June to September quarter has been…

Cellphone makers fight over table scraps left by Apple’s unstoppable iPhone

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:57 amWednesday, March 4, 201514 Comments

Other manufacturers just look on in awe…

Apple may not lead in market share, but dominates other critical metrics

Friday, February 13, 2015 12:00 pmFriday, February 13, 201511 Comments

Apple has been crushing the competition…

Samsung has already lost to Apple in smartphones

Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:01 pmThursday, January 29, 201515 Comments

Apple’s greater profitability affords it the capital needed to fuel…

Apple just ‘tied’ Samsung without even trying

Thursday, January 29, 2015 8:58 amThursday, January 29, 201515 Comments

Apple Inc. captured the top spot in China’s smartphone market…

Chinese Xiaomi copycat hit with patent infringement lawsuits, sales bans

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 9:58 amTuesday, December 23, 201415 Comments

Xiaomi Corp. became the biggest smartphone seller in China by peddling iPhone knockoffs…

China’s Xiaomi made a meager $56 million profit in 2013

Monday, December 15, 2014 8:31 am11 Comments

South Korea’s LG lost its position as the world’s third-biggest…

Xiaomi looking to overtake Apple in smartphones

Monday, November 24, 2014 2:28 pmMonday, November 24, 201424 Comments

Last week, Xiaomi CEO Jun Lei said that he expects…

IDC and Gartner numbers do not jibe with Apple’s double digit U.S. Mac growth

Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:39 pm38 Comments

Apple reported ‘strong double digit growth’ in its Mac sales in the U.S…

Apple’s iOS vs. Google’s Android: The wealth of ecosystems

Monday, June 30, 2014 10:14 pm28 Comments

iOS has a higher ‘wealth share’ than Android and this wealth gap will only widen with time…

With 15.5% of smartphone market share in Q1, Apple took 65% of all handset profits

Friday, May 9, 2014 11:40 amFriday, May 9, 20146 Comments

According to IDC, Apple’s share of worldwide smartphone shipments was…

Why Apple’s iPhone keeps raking in the majority of mobile phone profits

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:00 pmWednesday, March 19, 201418 Comments

Apple continues to collect the lion’s share of the smartphone’s industry’s profit…

Apple dominates with 60% share of mobile phone profits

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:18 amTuesday, March 18, 20144 Comments

Since the launch of the iPhone the net profits earned…

How Apple CEO Tim Cook infuriates investors

Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:03 am63 Comments

The recent Apple earnings report reminds us there is a specific agenda…

Exposing IDC’s, Gartner’s, and Strategy Analytics’ PC, phone and tablet data on Apple

Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:58 amSaturday, November 16, 201334 Comments

Exposing IDC’s, Gartner’s Strategy Analytics’ rackets…

Apple stock lower on market share data

Friday, November 15, 2013 4:29 pmFriday, November 15, 201333 Comments

Apple Inc. headed lower on Friday on data that showed the global market share…

Android has the most unit share, but Apple dominates profit share, making more money than all Android smartphone makers combined

Friday, November 15, 2013 10:16 am15 Comments

Apple continues to make more money than all of their competitors combined…

Why Apple is not in the volume business

Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:03 pmThursday, November 14, 201325 Comments

The smartphone industry is growing really, really fast…

No, Apple’s iPad is not losing the tablet war

Monday, November 4, 2013 9:06 am54 Comments

Apple has gotten many such bear arguments lately…

Kantar: Get ready for Apple iPhone sales spike as Android share dips

Monday, September 30, 2013 1:00 pmMonday, September 30, 201313 Comments

Apple will pull ahead of Android in the key market of Japan…

IDC: Apple iPad’s share of tablet market cut nearly in half in one year

Monday, August 5, 2013 3:29 pmMonday, August 5, 201387 Comments

As expected, worldwide tablet shipment growth slowed in the second quarter of 2013…

Is Apple’s iPhone about to gain a mountain of market share?

Monday, July 29, 2013 6:53 pm24 Comments

The more discerning the buying public becomes, the more the quality…

Comparing the market share of Android phones to Apple’s iPhone is a damned lie

Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:01 pmThursday, June 20, 201327 Comments

Why do we lump all Android phones together and count them as one?

Samsung breaks smartphone unit sales record in China for Q1, doubles Apple’s iPhone

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:03 am27 Comments

After becoming the smartphone market leader in China last year, Samsung…

As sales of Windows PCs fade, Mac sales hold steady in April

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 8:42 am11 Comments

According to NPD, Mac sales for the month of April in North America…

Analyst: Samsung, BlackBerry marketing tends to mentally enslave the Indian consumer

Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:08 pm34 Comments

Apple is ‘outmarketed’ in India by BlackBerry and Samsung Electronics…

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…

Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One platform will not rule them all

Monday, May 13, 2013 12:02 pmMonday, May 13, 201310 Comments

There are narratives circling the technology industry…

Apple’s iOS ups massive lead over Android in U.S. Web traffic with 69% share in April

Tuesday, May 7, 2013 8:47 amTuesday, May 7, 201319 Comments

Apple’s iOS is tops in mobile Web traffic…

Apple and Samsung locked in smartphone price war in India – or are they?

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:36 am17 Comments

amsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are battling it out…

Daring Fireball’s Gruber on ‘ceding the crown’

Friday, March 15, 2013 1:33 pmFriday, March 15, 201341 Comments

Apple “ceded its crown to Samsung in 2012?” Oh, really?

Apple dominates mobile phone makers with 72% profit share worldwide in Q412

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 1:34 pm10 Comments

Together, Apple and Samsung accounted for 103 percent of mobile phone profits in 2012…

Of myths and market share

Friday, January 18, 2013 4:31 pmFriday, January 18, 201327 Comments

When comparing the market share numbers of smart phone operating systems…

How Apple is destroying Android from the inside out

Friday, January 18, 2013 2:54 pmFriday, January 18, 201326 Comments

You know what they say about the obvious…

Apple lets online customers in China pay in 2-year installments

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:03 pmWednesday, January 16, 20135 Comments

Apple Inc. introduced installment payment plans for buyers of iPhones and MacBook laptops…

Strategy Analytics: Apple could launch ‘iPhone Mini’ next year to blunt Samsung market share threat

Friday, January 4, 2013 12:02 pmFriday, January 4, 201327 Comments

Is an ‘iPhone Mini’ on the horizon?

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…

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