http://www.appleinsider.com/ AppleInsider has been the leading source of insider news and rumors on Apple Computer since 1997. en-us Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:32 -0500 http://images.appleinsider.com/images/toolbar_logo_textAI.gif http://www.appleinsider.com/ http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/01/idc_apple_climbs_two_spots_to_become_worlds_third_largest_mobile_phone_maker/ Record sales of the iPhone pushed Apple past ZTE and LG to become the third-largest handset vendor in the world, according to a new analysis from IDC. The market intelligence firm released its Worl... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/01/idc_apple_climbs_two_spots_to_become_worlds_third_largest_mobile_phone_maker/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:50:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/27/iphone_believed_to_account_for_record_8_of_global_mobile_phone_market/ Even as Apple appears to have retaken the top spot among smartphone makers during the fourth quarter of 2011, a new analysis claims the iPhone made up 8.3 percent of the worldwide mobile phone market ... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/27/iphone_believed_to_account_for_record_8_of_global_mobile_phone_market/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:30:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/26/apple_reclaims_title_of_worlds_largest_smartphone_maker_after_blowout_quarter/ Apple overtook Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2011 to grab the top spot among global smartphone makers, earning 23.9 percent of the market with sales of 37 million iPhones, according to one set of ... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/26/apple_reclaims_title_of_worlds_largest_smartphone_maker_after_blowout_quarter/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:50:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/23/ios_android_reach_55_penetration_with_us_installed_base_of_109m/ Apple's iOS and Google's Android together have reached close to 55 percent market penetration of the estimated 200 million potential smart device purchasers in the U.S., while the two platforms have t... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/12/23/ios_android_reach_55_penetration_with_us_installed_base_of_109m/ Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:18:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/28/apple_slips_to_no_5_global_handset_maker_no_2_in_smartphones_after_iphone_transition_quarter/ After buyers holding out for the iPhone 4S resulted in slowed iPhone 4 sales for Apple last quarter, Chinese handset maker ZTE slipped past it to become the fourth-largest global handset maker, while ... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/28/apple_slips_to_no_5_global_handset_maker_no_2_in_smartphones_after_iphone_transition_quarter/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:41:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/29/apple_bursts_past_nokia_to_become_worlds_largest_smartphone_maker/ Just four years after releasing the iPhone, Apple has managed to pass Nokia and fend off a challenge from Samsung in the second quarter on its way to a new milestone as the world's No. 1 smartphone ma... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/29/apple_bursts_past_nokia_to_become_worlds_largest_smartphone_maker/ Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:40:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/04/android_gaining_on_apple_ios_in_mobile_web_market_share/ Android's share of U.S. mobile web traffic climbed to 25% in August in its best one month gain since Nov. 2009. Web statistics company Quantcast published the data, which tracked U.S. mobile web co... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/09/04/android_gaining_on_apple_ios_in_mobile_web_market_share/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:55:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/12/android_based_smartphone_shipments_leapfrog_apples_iphone/ Shipments of smartphones running Google's Android operating system outpaced iPhones for the first time during the second quarter of the year, as sales of all integrated mobile devices worldwide rose m... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/08/12/android_based_smartphone_shipments_leapfrog_apples_iphone/ Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:35:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/12/apples_iphone_captures_17_of_worldwide_smartphone_market/ In less than two and a half years on the market, Apple's iPhone has managed nearly a fifth of the total global smartphone market, thanks to nearly 50 percent year-over-year growth in sales in the thir... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/12/apples_iphone_captures_17_of_worldwide_smartphone_market/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/21/canalys_iphone_outsold_all_windows_mobile_phones_in_q2_2009/ Apple's iPhone held onto a 13.7% share of global smartphone unit sales in the second quarter, outpacing Microsoft's Windows Mobile, which now claims just 9% of the market, according to Canalys. "Ap... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/21/canalys_iphone_outsold_all_windows_mobile_phones_in_q2_2009/ Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/19/iphone_sales_predicted_to_top_80_million_by_2012/ New reports forecast that Apple will sell 50 million phones in 2011, and more than 80 million in 2012, as worldwide expansion and popularity of the iPhone continues to grow. Apple shipped 13.7 mill... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/19/iphone_sales_predicted_to_top_80_million_by_2012/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:50:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/04/report_iphone_grabs_32_of_global_handset_profits_in_2009/ Apple's iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry's handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi. Th... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/04/report_iphone_grabs_32_of_global_handset_profits_in_2009/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:35:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/08/nearly_half_of_prospective_smartphone_buyers_to_choose_iphone/ Even amid turbulent times, smartphone adoption continues to rise, with a new study revealing that nearly half of those consumers who plan to make a new smartphone purchase in the next three months wil... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/07/08/nearly_half_of_prospective_smartphone_buyers_to_choose_iphone/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/20/apple_shares_of_smartphone_market_up_more_than_twofold/ Apple saw its share of global smartphone market more than double on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of the year but still has much work to do before catching BlackBerry maker Research ... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/20/apple_shares_of_smartphone_market_up_more_than_twofold/ Wed, 20 May 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/04/blackberry_unseats_iphone_as_most_popular_smartphone_in_q1/ Aggressive promotions through its US wireless carrier helped push BlackBerry maker Research in Motion ahead Apple and the iPhone to take honors as the most popular smartphone maker during the first qu... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/04/blackberry_unseats_iphone_as_most_popular_smartphone_in_q1/ Mon, 04 May 2009 13:45:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/21/survey_highlights_iphone_impact_among_mobiles/ A new US survey reveals a general decline in mobile phone growth, a mass exodus from Sprint to other carriers, a significant but relaxing demand for the iPhone, a failure of the Android G1 to have muc... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/21/survey_highlights_iphone_impact_among_mobiles/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/iphones_us_web_presence_beats_rim_and_wimo_combined/ The popularity of Apple's WiFi mobile platform as a handheld web browser device is rapidly accelerating worldwide and dominating web traffic in the US, according to a new report issued by mobile adver... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/08/iphones_us_web_presence_beats_rim_and_wimo_combined/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/04/apples_smartphone_share_closer_to_13_still_ahead_of_microsoft/ Apple's share of the worldwide smartphone market is closer to 13% than the 16% reported earlier this week, but that's still good enough to push the iPhone maker past Microsoft to become the third larg... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/04/apples_smartphone_share_closer_to_13_still_ahead_of_microsoft/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/02/iphone_single_handedly_driving_smartphone_growth/ In addition to outselling a broad and combined range of Windows Mobile handsets, Apple's iPhone 3G is being credited this week as the lone force responsible for growth of the smartphone market during ... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/12/02/iphone_single_handedly_driving_smartphone_growth/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/07/apple_pulling_away_from_competition_in_teenage_mindshare/ Apple in the last six months has broadened its lead among the teenage demographic in the areas of mobile phones and digital music, a critical indicator of the company's long-term growth prospects in t... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/07/apple_pulling_away_from_competition_in_teenage_mindshare/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/19/rising_iphone_browser_share_points_to_sales_of_5_million_3g_units/ The iPhone's share of the worldwide browser market has increased nearly twofold following the release of the iPhone 3G last month, leading researchers at PacificCrest to suggest that September quarter... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/19/rising_iphone_browser_share_points_to_sales_of_5_million_3g_units/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/06/apple_now_the_worlds_no_3_smartphone_vendor/ Apple during the first quarter of 2008 rode the booming smartphone market to sales of more than 1.7 million iPhones, good enough to make it the No. 3 manufacturer of multi-function handsets worldwide,... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/06/apple_now_the_worlds_no_3_smartphone_vendor/ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/01/piper_jaffray_addresses_15_more_unanswered_apple_questions/ Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster on Thursday issued a report to clients that analytically addresses 16 more unanswered questions surrounding the Apple story, including some pertaining to the company... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/01/piper_jaffray_addresses_15_more_unanswered_apple_questions/ Thu, 01 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/18/iphones_safari_already_the_no_1_us_mobile_browser_says_firm/ The mobile version of Safari packaged as standard on each iPhone has already scaled the charts to emerge as the No. 2 mobile web browser in the UK and the No. 1 mobile web browser in the US, accordin... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/03/18/iphones_safari_already_the_no_1_us_mobile_browser_says_firm/ Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/07/apple_rim_to_benefit_from_shift_away_from_basic_cell_phones_study/ Record numbers of consumers are abandoning their basic cell phones for more advanced models -- with Research-in-Motion and Apple the primary beneficiaries, according to ChangeWaveís latest consumer ce... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/07/apple_rim_to_benefit_from_shift_away_from_basic_cell_phones_study/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/05/iphones_share_of_us_smartphone_market_rises_to_28_percent/ Apple Inc. managed to garner approximately 28 percent of the red hot US smartphone market during the fourth calendar quarter of 2007, up more than 43 percent from the three-month period ending Septemb... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/05/iphones_share_of_us_smartphone_market_rises_to_28_percent/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/18/study_iphone_already_nibbling_away_at_motorolas_dominance/ Although it's been on the shelf for just three months, the impact of iPhone is clearly being felt by rival phone manufacturers, according to a new study which claims that Apple's cell phone market sha... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/18/study_iphone_already_nibbling_away_at_motorolas_dominance/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:00:00 GMT