Market Share

Apple reportedly once again top US smartphone vendor, increases lead over Samsung

By Joseph Keller, Thursday, Apr 4, 2013 a 5:51 pm

Apple was the top smartphone vender in the United States between December and February according to the latest comScore report. Apple captured 38.9% of a smartphone market of 133.7 million people, up 3.9% from the last measurement period.

Making dollars and sense of Apple’s enormous share of mobile computing profits

By Chris Umiastowski, Thursday, Aug 9, 2012 a 2:08 pm

For the last few years, industry pundits have been reporting on the surprising gap between Apple’s share of shipments compared to its share of profits. Investors care more about profits than market share.

On Monday of this week, John Paczkowski of AllThingsD wrote another one of these stories, quoting a report from analyst Tavis McCourt of Raymond James. Tavis is a sell-side analyst, and we’ve met many times at various trade shows and analyst events. I think he’s a smart guy, so I am happy to pay attention to stuff that he writes. And it does raise a really interesting question...

Apple and Samsung collectively enjoy 90% of smartphone market profits, 55% market share

By Simon Sage, Monday, Jun 18, 2012 a 2:08 pm

ABI Research recently published the results of their survey of the smartphone market in Q1 2012, and found that Samsung and Apple together claim a little more than half the market share and 90% of the profits. Global smartphone shipments grew a healthy 41% since last year, though Sony and Samsung were the only ones to see growth quarter-over-quarter.

Windows Phone projected to claim more market share than iOS in 2016

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, Jun 6, 2012 a 11:02 am

IDC announced the results of their quarterly smartphone research today, and found that worldwide, Android claimed 61% of the pie, followed by iOS with 20.5%, BlackBerry with 6.0%, and Windows Phone with 5.2%. The real shocker is that IDC projected a drop in iOS market share to 19% by 2016, and forecasted Windows Phone would claim just about as much as Apple with a 19.2% share.

iPad crushes other mobile PC and tablet manufactures in market share

By Simon Sage, Thursday, May 24, 2012 a 1:54 pm

NPD recently published the results of their Q1 2012 mobile PC market research, and as you might expect, Apple's iPad has dominated competing mobile PC manufacturers. After shipping 17.2 million iPads in the quarter, Apple has claimed 22.5% market share, compared to HP's 11.6%, Acer's 9% and Lenovo's 7.7%. Among tablet manufacturers, the iPad commanded 62.8% market share, followed by Samsung with 7.5%, Amazon with 4%, and RIM tied with ASUS with 2.3%.

iOS holds steady behind Android platform market share in Q1 2012

By Simon Sage, Thursday, May 24, 2012 a 10:44 am

IDC released their quarterly report on worldwide smartphone market share by operating system today, and the chart looks more or less as you'd expect: Android has kept ballooning (59% market share), while iOS maintained a respectable second place (23%), while Symbian (6.8%) and BlackBerry (6.4%) continued their downward spirals.

iPhone snags top spot in Japan with 30% market share

By Simon Sage, Friday, May 11, 2012 a 11:12 am

Research firm MMRI has tallied up local mobile sales for 2011 and figured that iPhone has claimed 30% of Japan's smartphone market with 7.3 million units, making it the most popular individual brand of the bunch. In the overall mobile landscape of Japan, iPhone claimed 17% share, which is second only to Fujitsu.

U.S. smartphone penetration crosses 50%, but iOS tails Android

By Simon Sage, Monday, May 7, 2012 a 4:40 pm

Though there's still some contention as to whether or not Android is in fact beating out iOS as the leading smartphone operating system in the U.S., Nielsen's latest research shows that Android is leading the way with a 48.5% share. Nielsen's figures also show smartphone adoption now rests at 50.4% of the overall mobile market, which is up from 47.8% in December.

iOS might not be behind Android in U.S. smartphone market share after all

By Simon Sage, Thursday, May 3, 2012 a 11:09 am

NPD and comScore recently released quarterly research figures over the last few days which suggested that Android was beating out iPhone in the U.S., but some digging into the numbers are showing that might not be the case.

Apple snags 14% mobile market share in U.S., still behind Samsung and LG

By Simon Sage, Wednesday, May 2, 2012 a 10:46 am

comScore released their first quarter 2012 U.S. mobile market share numbers recently, and though Apple has had a solid climb to 14% market share, LG is still ahead with 19.3% and Samsung claims 26%. The gap in smartphone platform market share with Android is widening, as Google's mobile OS snags 51%, and iOS sits at 30.7%.