Comments on: iPhone Market Share Continuing to Climb

By: wansai

wansai — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:45:23 +0000

Hardly staggering when you consider that the majority of iPhone sales are to an installed base of apple users with 65-75% being sold in North America. I'll be more impressed when we start to see them growing a more sizable market outside of their own users.

@iDavey, Nokia sells roughly 1.1 billion phones per year. Not sure what the other brands are putting out yearly.

@ Lolz, I think it's premature to state that. iPhone hasn't yet been shown to be able to move out of their installed base in a signifigant amount to start saying other players should give up; not least of all Nokia, LG, Samsung etc... These guys are competing at a level that Apple hasn't yet had to enter due to their tying themselves up for subsidies and such. In markets where they can't get decent traction with the carriers (because subsidies are archaic), iphone take-up isn't very good. Once iphone gets to the point where they have to start operating without the carrier subsidies and such, you'll see that it's going to be a much steeper hill to climb than the last 3 years.

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:10:35 +0000

@Dewayne:

It looks like there are three platforms on the rise that have a lot in common.

That says Apple pretty much NAILED the hardware and software, and set the standard for the segment.

Others have largely caught up, hardware wise, (and perhaps OS wise) but the thing that keeps Apple ahead is the App Store.

By: Dewayne

Dewayne — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:22:33 +0000

I think it is interesting that S60 is loosing market share and WinMo is loosing both share and units shipped. Will RIM soon join these two platforms in sinking as well?

It looks like there are three platforms on the rise that have a lot in common. The iPhone OS, WebOS and Android all have a unix core, webkit and a touch based interface.

By: iDavey

iDavey — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:57:09 +0000

This is just indicative of how many were sold in the 2Q09 right?

I'm more interested in yearly figures. That says more. So I'll wait til then. Thanks.

By: Loz

Loz — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:54:21 +0000

If I was a phone manufacturer, I reckon I'd give up and admit defeat.

By: Icebike

Icebike — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:56:13 +0000

Not so much feasting on RIMs lunch any more, it now seems like Nokia is feeling the heat and "others" are simply going away.

By: Mattshall

Mattshall — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:41:10 +0000

Market share always follows mind share...

By: iPhoneMilk

iPhoneMilk — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:07 +0000

Apple's way to successful! We've got to stop them! Quick! someone make up some garbage and get the government involved! we need to stop them! I know, let's get the FCC!