Showing posts with label Mobile Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile Market. Show all posts
Apple is The Top Phone Seller in The US
Friday, February 01, 2013
Posted by Kida Retail
As per the latest published by the firm Strategic Analytics, Apple is now the biggest seller of Phones in US market. Apple has shipped 17.7 million iPhones of all kinds to US buyers in the October to December period, almost 1 in three phones comes from Apple. Apple is followed by Samsung which has shipped around 16.8 million phones including non smartphones. Samsung has been one of the biggest phones seller in US from 2008.
Though not in US but worldwide still Samsung is still the biggest phone vendor with 23 percent of the market, according to a third research firm, IDC. Apple is on the third position with 9.9 percent of the market while the middle position is occupied by Nokia with 17.9 percent market share. Globally Samsung has beaten Apple by shipping 63.7 million units worldwide versus Apple's 47.8 million.
Here is chart from IDC where you can figure out the market share of the global mobile vendors -
Chart: Worldwide Smartphone Vendors Market Share, 2012 Q4Description: IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker provides smart phone and feature phone market data in 60 countries and 8 regions by vendor, device type, air interface, operating systems and platforms, and generation. Over 20 additional technical segmentations are provided. The data is provided four times a year and includes historical and forecast trend analysis. For more information, or to subscribe to the research, please contact Kathy Nagamine at 1-650-350-6423 or knagamine@idc.com.Further detail about this tracker can be found at:http://www.idc.com/tracker/showproductinfo.jsp?prod_id=37Tags: Samsung, Apple, Huawei, ZTE, Sony, Mobile Phone, Smartphone, IDC, tracker, Q4 2012, mobile phones, 4Q 2012, market share, galaxy, iPhone, Android, iOS, Holiday QuarterAuthor: IDCcharts powered by iCharts
As per the NPD, iPhone 5 was the single most popular phone in the US in the holiday quarter. The Samsung Galaxy S III was No. 2, followed by the iPhone 4S and 4.
As per the NPD, iPhone 5 was the single most popular phone in the US in the holiday quarter. The Samsung Galaxy S III was No. 2, followed by the iPhone 4S and 4.
No Plans for Cheaper iPhone - Apple Executive
Friday, January 11, 2013
Posted by Kida Retail
Just a few days back, I had mentioned in one of my posts that Apple was working on cheaper phones and it could be launched later in 2013. But now, it seems Apple has no such plans. Recently in a Chinese-Language Daily, the Shanghai Evening News, it was confirmed by Phil Schiller that Apple has no such plans to launch cheap iPhones to target Asian market. Phil Schiller is the AppleSenior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. Below is what he quoted -
"At first, non-smartphones were popular in the Chinese market, now cheap smartphones are more popular and non-smartphones are out. "Despite the popularity of cheap smartphones, this will never be the future of Apple's products. In fact, although Apple's market share of smartphones is just about 20 percent, we own the 75 percent of the profit."
Phil also made it clear that cheaper phones could severely affect Apple's industry-leading profit margins.
Well, I am unhappy over what Phil has said. I think we will have to wait for long before we can see more affordable cheaper Apple phones especially in the Asian market !
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