IDC: Apple climbs two spots to become world's third-largest mobile phone maker
Wed, Feb 1, 2012 - 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. ( 19 comments )
Apple's iPhone believed to account for record 8% of global mobile phone market
Fri, Jan 27, 2012 - 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 during the same period. ( 21 comments )
Apple reclaims title of world's largest smartphone maker after blowout quarter
Thu, Jan 26, 2012 - 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 estimates. ( 41 comments )
iOS, Android reach 55% market penetration with US installed base of 109M
Fri, Dec 23, 2011 - 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 the most room to grow in China, which has 122 million untapped potential users, according to a new analysis. ( 80 comments )
Apple slips to No. 5 handset maker, No. 2 in smartphones after iPhone transition quarter
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 - 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 Samsung took the top spot among smartphone vendors worldwide, according to a new analysis. ( 106 comments )
Apple bursts past Nokia to become world's largest smartphone maker
Fri, Jul 29, 2011 - 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 maker in terms of volume. ( 50 comments )
Android gaining on Apple iOS in mobile web market share
Sat, Sep 4, 2010 - Android's share of U.S. mobile web traffic climbed to 25% in August in its best one month gain since Nov. 2009. ( 349 comments )
Android-based smartphone shipments leapfrog Apple's iPhone
Thu, Aug 12, 2010 - 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 more than 50% to 61.6 million units. ( 352 comments )
Apple's iPhone captures 17% of worldwide smartphone market
Thu, Nov 12, 2009 - 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 third quarter of 2009. ( 66 comments )
Canalys: iPhone outsold all Windows Mobile phones in Q2 2009
Fri, Aug 21, 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. ( 82 comments )
iPhone sales predicted to top 80 million by 2012
Wed, Aug 19, 2009 - 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. ( 38 comments )
Report: iPhone grabs 32% of global handset profits
Tue, Aug 4, 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. ( 183 comments )
Nearly half of prospective smartphone buyers to choose iPhone
Wed, Jul 8, 2009 - 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 will buy an iPhone. ( 74 comments )
Apple shares of smartphone market up more than twofold
Wed, May 20, 2009 - 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 in Motion and market leader Nokia. ( 149 comments )
BlackBerry unseats iPhone as most popular smartphone in Q1
Mon, May 4, 2009 - 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 quarter of 2009. ( 167 comments )
Survey highlights iPhone impact among mobiles
Wed, Jan 21, 2009 - 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 much impact for T-Mobile, but continued strength in the smartphone segment. ( 16 comments )
iPhone's US web presence beats RIM and WiMo combined
Thu, Jan 8, 2009 - 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 advertising firm AdMob. Apple's strong position promises to color how the mobile web develops. ( 25 comments )
Apple's smartphone share closer to 13%, still ahead of Microsoft
Thu, Dec 4, 2008 - 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 largest smartphone OS vendor, according to Gartner. ( 51 comments )
iPhone single-handedly driving smartphone growth
Tue, Dec 2, 2008 - 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 the September quarter. ( 19 comments )
Apple pulling away from competition in teenage mindshare
Tue, Oct 7, 2008 - 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 those respective markets. ( 20 comments )
Rising iPhone browser share points to sales of 5 million 3G units
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 - 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 sales of the device may be tracking 1.5 million units ahead of expectations. ( 27 comments )
Apple now the world's No. 3 smartphone vendor
Fri, Jun 6, 2008 - 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, according to a report released Friday by market research firm Gartner. ( 67 comments )
Piper Jaffray addresses 15 more 'unanswered Apple questions'
Thu, May 1, 2008 - 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's iPhone hardware roadmap and approach to the enterprise. ( 38 comments )
iPhone's Safari already the No. 1 US mobile browser, says firm
Tue, Mar 18, 2008 - 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, according to a new report. ( 9 comments )
Apple, RIM to benefit from shift away from basic cell phones - study
Thu, Feb 7, 2008 - 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 ChangeWave’s latest consumer cell phone survey. ( 5 comments )
iPhone's share of US smartphone market rises to 28 percent
Tue, Feb 5, 2008 - 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 September. ( 77 comments )
Study: iPhone already nibbling away at Motorola's lead
Thu, Oct 18, 2007 - 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 share is already on the rise at the expense of Motorola. ( 53 comments )
