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iOS holds steady behind Android platform market share in Q1 2012
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%) ...
iPad crushes other mobile PC and tablet manufactures in market share
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. Again. 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% a...
U.S. smartphone penetration crosses 50%, but iPhone still trails Android
It’s finally happened. If the latest numbers can be believed, smartphone adoption now rests at 50.4% of the overall mobile market, which is up from 47.8% in December. That means more people in the U.S. now own smartphones than feature phones. The tide has turned. The paradigm has shifted. ...
China overtakes US in terms of smartphone shipments
The iPhone is currently available on two of the top 3 carriers in China. The lone holdout is China Mobile which just so happens to be the biggest carrier in the world, featuring over 655 million subscribers as of January 2012. To put that into perspective, that’s about six times as many sub...
When sales exceed surveys: Could iPhone be ahead of Android in marketshare?
NPD and comScore released quarterly research figures over the last few days which suggested that Android was beating out iPhone in the U.S. marketshare. However, some digging into the numbers show that might not be the case. According to the financial results directly from the major carriers, AT...
Android is either 'winning' because Apple is letting it, or losing
Over the past few days, both comScore and NPD have put out data showing that Android...
Apple snags 14% mobile market share in U.S., behind Samsung and LG
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 was still ahead with 19.3% while Samsung claimed 26%. The gap in smartphone platform market share with Android is widening, as Google’s mobil...
Samsung Ousts Apple And Nokia For Top Spot In Total Mobile Phone and Smartphone Shipments
According to the latest report from the International Data Corporation, Samsung has ousted both Apple and Nokia to aquire the top spot in both smartphone and total mobile phone shipments for the first quarter of 2012. This marks the first time since the inception of IDC’s Mobile Phone Trac...
Samsung leapfrogs Apple as top smartphone vendor worldwide
Samsung has snagged the top smartphone vendor spot from Apple, a throne Apple had just claimed in Q4 2011. Apple’s Q1 2012 smartphone market share sat at 24.2%, while Samsung enjoyed a slight lead with 29.1% of all smartphone sales worldwide. The quarter also marked Samsung’s leap ov...
Apple and the myth of 'The Law of Large Numbers'
As Apple continues to set new records for revenue and profits...
