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iPhone market share grew 375% in Q2
Posted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
August 13, 2009 9:32 AM
Source: Gartner August 2009
Sales of Nokia's (NOK) Symbian smartphones are drifting. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is gaining on RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry. Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile is still sinking. And the launch of the Palm (PALM) Pre barely made a ripple in the gobal smartphone market.
Those were the headlines from the smartphone portion of Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report, which saw smartphone sales grow 27% even as overall mobile phone sales, feeling recessionary pressure, fell 6%.
In this context, Apple was the clear winner. Its iPhone sales, as Gartner counts them, grew more than 500% year to year, and its market share, as we figure it, grew 375%. (See chart below the fold.)
"Apple's expansion into a larger number of countries in the past year has produced a clear effect on sales volumes, as have the recent price adjustments on the 8GB 3G iPhone," according to Gartner's press release. "Apple brought its much-anticipated new device — the iPhone 3G S — to market at the end of the second quarter of 2009, but its full potential will only start to show in the sales figures in the second half of 2009."
Gartner made note of the declining market shares of Symbian and Windows Mobile, but it expressed particular concern about the Palm Pre.
"This device attracted a lot of media attention but showed mixed results at the cash register as sales only reached 205,000 units," said Gartner principal analyst Roberta Cozza. "Palm currently ranks tenth in the smartphone market and Gartner remains concerned about its ability to gain traction outside the US market, where its brand is less strong."
Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, iPhone, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Windows Mobile
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Palm Pre….Pre to what? Failure?
It's also ugly looking….When will corporations realize that customers care about asthetics as much as functionality…
The iPhone beats them all in every aspect….Who cares about 5 mega pixel cameras and flash and blah blah….People probably don't half the features…..The point is that the iPhone does well what it was designed to do, and the people who have it know that (except the ones reluctant to change)
Posted By Jack, Clark NJ: August 13, 2009 11:26 AM
The guy who only has 1 friend using iPhone, he must be locked up in a slammer somewhere. Look around you, mcdonalds, airports, parks, etc. They're everywhere. I used to feel special when I had my first generation iPhone. But not anymore. It's no longer a gadget, it's an utility.
Posted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
August 13, 2009 9:32 AM
Source: Gartner August 2009
Sales of Nokia's (NOK) Symbian smartphones are drifting. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is gaining on RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry. Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile is still sinking. And the launch of the Palm (PALM) Pre barely made a ripple in the gobal smartphone market.
Those were the headlines from the smartphone portion of Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report, which saw smartphone sales grow 27% even as overall mobile phone sales, feeling recessionary pressure, fell 6%.
In this context, Apple was the clear winner. Its iPhone sales, as Gartner counts them, grew more than 500% year to year, and its market share, as we figure it, grew 375%. (See chart below the fold.)
"Apple's expansion into a larger number of countries in the past year has produced a clear effect on sales volumes, as have the recent price adjustments on the 8GB 3G iPhone," according to Gartner's press release. "Apple brought its much-anticipated new device — the iPhone 3G S — to market at the end of the second quarter of 2009, but its full potential will only start to show in the sales figures in the second half of 2009."
Gartner made note of the declining market shares of Symbian and Windows Mobile, but it expressed particular concern about the Palm Pre.
"This device attracted a lot of media attention but showed mixed results at the cash register as sales only reached 205,000 units," said Gartner principal analyst Roberta Cozza. "Palm currently ranks tenth in the smartphone market and Gartner remains concerned about its ability to gain traction outside the US market, where its brand is less strong."
Tags: Apple, BlackBerry, iPhone, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm, RIM, Windows Mobile
12 Comments * Add a Comment * Email Twitter Facebook Digg
Palm Pre….Pre to what? Failure?
It's also ugly looking….When will corporations realize that customers care about asthetics as much as functionality…
The iPhone beats them all in every aspect….Who cares about 5 mega pixel cameras and flash and blah blah….People probably don't half the features…..The point is that the iPhone does well what it was designed to do, and the people who have it know that (except the ones reluctant to change)
Posted By Jack, Clark NJ: August 13, 2009 11:26 AM
The guy who only has 1 friend using iPhone, he must be locked up in a slammer somewhere. Look around you, mcdonalds, airports, parks, etc. They're everywhere. I used to feel special when I had my first generation iPhone. But not anymore. It's no longer a gadget, it's an utility.
