Apple's iPhone grows to 5.5% share of all mobile phone sales
The iPhone accounted for 5.5 percent of all mobile phone sales in the third quarter of 2012, making Apple the third-largest handset maker in the world.
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, research firm Gartner revealed in a new report on Wednesday. While overall mobile phone sales were down 3.1 percent, smartphone sales were up 47 percent year over year.
The growth of smartphones helped Apple, as the iPhone expanded from its 3.9 percent share in the year-ago quarter. Apple's total 23.5 million iPhones sold to end users came without offering any "feature phones" still sold by rivals Samsung and Nokia.
Those low-cost, low-profit phones offered by Nokia helped those companies take the first two spots in terms of market share in the third quarter. Samsung accounted for 22.9 percent of mobile phone sales, while Nokia took 19.2 percent.
Though Gartner didn't provide an extensive breakdown of smartphone sales by manufacturer, the research firm did reveal that Apple and Samsung collectively accounted for 46.5 percent of smartphone sales in the quarter. Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner, said Apple and Samsung's market dominance left "a handful of vendors fighting over a distant third spot."
Finishing in third place was Research in Motion, while HTC was said to be not far behind in fourth place. Both companies have seen their sales decline in recent quarters, and Gupta suggested they would struggle to hold their rankings going forward.
Gartner also broke down smartphone sales by mobile platform, and found that Apple's iOS accounted for 13.9 percent of the smartphone operating system market share, placing it firmly in second place.
Apple's 13.9 percent was enough to put it well ahead of Research in Motion's 5.3 percent share. But Apple was also well behind Google's market dominating Android platform, which accounted for 72.4 percent of the smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012.
Gartner analysts are particularly bullish on the anticipated launch of Apple's iPhone 5 in China in the current quarter. The firm expects that the holiday quarter will be Apple's strongest, as it has traditionally been for the company.
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, research firm Gartner revealed in a new report on Wednesday. While overall mobile phone sales were down 3.1 percent, smartphone sales were up 47 percent year over year.
The growth of smartphones helped Apple, as the iPhone expanded from its 3.9 percent share in the year-ago quarter. Apple's total 23.5 million iPhones sold to end users came without offering any "feature phones" still sold by rivals Samsung and Nokia.
Those low-cost, low-profit phones offered by Nokia helped those companies take the first two spots in terms of market share in the third quarter. Samsung accounted for 22.9 percent of mobile phone sales, while Nokia took 19.2 percent.
Though Gartner didn't provide an extensive breakdown of smartphone sales by manufacturer, the research firm did reveal that Apple and Samsung collectively accounted for 46.5 percent of smartphone sales in the quarter. Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner, said Apple and Samsung's market dominance left "a handful of vendors fighting over a distant third spot."
Finishing in third place was Research in Motion, while HTC was said to be not far behind in fourth place. Both companies have seen their sales decline in recent quarters, and Gupta suggested they would struggle to hold their rankings going forward.
Gartner also broke down smartphone sales by mobile platform, and found that Apple's iOS accounted for 13.9 percent of the smartphone operating system market share, placing it firmly in second place.
Apple's 13.9 percent was enough to put it well ahead of Research in Motion's 5.3 percent share. But Apple was also well behind Google's market dominating Android platform, which accounted for 72.4 percent of the smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012.
Gartner analysts are particularly bullish on the anticipated launch of Apple's iPhone 5 in China in the current quarter. The firm expects that the holiday quarter will be Apple's strongest, as it has traditionally been for the company.
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And yet 75% of all profits. Wonderful. Shows that everyone else is doing nothing but channel stuffing with the cheapest crap possible.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
And yet 75% of all profits. Wonderful. Shows that everyone else is doing nothing but channel stuffing with the cheapest crap possible.
Absoutely. Mind-boggling. Especially when you consider that Jobs set a goal of just 1% share for its go-ahead.
Look at the industry disruption it has wrought.... Nokia: gone. Palm: gone. RIM: gone. Sony-Ericsson: non-existent. LG: non-existent. MSFT in phones: non-existent. The list goes on.
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Absoutely. Mind-boggling. Especially when you consider that Jobs set a goal of just 1% share for its go-ahead.
Look at the industry disruption it has wrought.... Nokia: gone. Palm: gone. RIM: gone. Sony-Ericsson: non-existent. LG: non-existent. MSFT in phones: non-existent. The list goes on.
Samsung also has a part in it.
With their max market-share strategy, they are eating everyone on the low end. Until the market saturates, samsung will go on to sell 100 million smartphones per quarter...
Apple will keep going up, obviously, but at a much slower pace, which is perfect for them... the rest is irrelevant for Apple. Even if there was no one else, Apple wouldn't be able to sell more phones, they can't keep up with demand right know.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/samsung-dominates-smartphone-market-apple-a-distant-second-20121114-01009#.UKPCyIfAetM
Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Look at the industry disruption it has wrought.... Nokia: gone. Palm: gone. RIM: gone. Sony-Ericsson: non-existent. LG: non-existent. MSFT in phones: non-existent. The list goes on.
Samsung: permanently permanently and publicly humiliated, shamed, dishonored, and exposed as the thieves they are, eclipsing their ill-gotten "success".
Thanks, Sensi, for the correction. Much less delusional now.
Originally Posted by Sensi
…read again the definition of slandering…
Apologies; you're right. Not slandered, "permanently and publicly humiliated, shamed, dishonored, and exposed as the thieves they are" is more appropriate.
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Originally Posted by Sensi
Hmm: "Samsung sold 55 million smartphones in the quarter and accounted for 32.5 percent of the global smartphone market."
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/samsung-dominates-smartphone-market-apple-a-distant-second-20121114-01009#.UKPCyIfAetM
Yeah, but most of it is scarping the bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of ASP and profits. (No reason to believe otherwise until we some numbers from them directly, instead of these consulting firms.)
Also, wait till China Mobile opens up to Apple and an equally big prize, India.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Apologies; you're right. Not slandered, "permanently and publicly humiliated, shamed, dishonored, and exposed as the thieves they are" is more appropriate.
Worse. They have lost face.
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Yeah, but most of it is scarping the bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of ASP and profits. (No reason to believe otherwise until we some numbers from them directly, instead of these consulting firms.)
Also, wait till China Mobile opens up to Apple and an equally big prize, India.
I doubt India will help Apple to grow, they are not in a position to buy high margin products like the rest of the world. Part of the reason that Motorola is in the shape they are is because they tried to compete in India and could not since their cost structure is too high. They tried making low cost phone for the masses and failed to competitors who had much lower costs. Apple's cost structure is now far higher than Motorola ever was. Plus as it was clearly stated Apple is marketing their product to the people with the most disposable income. They do not care if everyone can have their products. They doing well in China since the Chinese like buying product with brand recognition, India has not shown that level of consumerism.
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Originally Posted by anantksundaram
Absoutely. Mind-boggling. Especially when you consider that Jobs set a goal of just 1% share for its go-ahead.
Look at the industry disruption it has wrought.... Nokia: gone. Palm: gone. RIM: gone. Sony-Ericsson: non-existent. LG: non-existent. MSFT in phones: non-existent. The list goes on.
Come off it with the overdramatic generalizations. Palm is the only one on that list that's gone. Nokia may still be in decline but they are still huge, own half of Siemens and still have north of 10b market cap, they are hardly gone as of now. Same for RIM except they are intentionally in a decline for a hail mary reboot next year, albeit a smaller market cap, not to mention the patent portfolio these 2 have.
Originally Posted by Sensi
Oh Jeez, I guess that you can't be rational nor factual, a lost cause...
So, in essence, and because I'd like to see you say it, Samsung didn't copy Apple, correct?
Originally Posted by thataveragejoe
Nokia may still be in decline but they are still huge… Same for RIM except they are intentionally in a decline for a hail mary reboot…
Seems like they both did their best when the iPhone 3G was out. You'd think that at least one person at either company would remember what that was and have kept it up or something.
a few random links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20020535-64.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/259842/apple_looked_to_sony_for_iphone_design_inspiration_court_documents_show.html
Take note that Apple doesn't universally-license (thank god) and that Apple's numbers are based on a very limited number of handsets.
NOW you can be impressed!
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Originally Posted by Sensi
Oh Jeez, I guess that you can't be rational nor factual, a lost cause...
There is no point arguing with a raving fanatic, whatever the cause they espouse.
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Originally Posted by thataveragejoe
Same for RIM except they are intentionally in a decline .....
Needed the laugh.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
And yet 75% of all profits. Wonderful. Shows that everyone else is doing nothing but channel stuffing with the cheapest crap possible.
Apple is doomed. A couple more years like this, and it's Game OVER MAN! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY