Apple reclaims the smartphone share top from Android in the US, buoyed by the iPhone 5 sales

32. iGREGG posted on 27 Nov 2012, 10:15 5 11

AppleGang ALL DAY EVERYDAY

34. Mxyzptlk posted on 27 Nov 2012, 10:22 7 19

Was there any doubt? The iPhone 5 is hugely popular and a phone worth having.

38. nofear posted on 27 Nov 2012, 14:00 8 1

Some people love to use one hand and other hand do - What? iPhone era near to the ending.

50. Mxyzptlk posted on 28 Nov 2012, 10:04 1 1

There's no end in sight.

10. Droid_X_Doug posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:31 5 0

You can get an approximation of what you are asking in total annual sales metrics. The area in between the Android and iOS lines represents the difference - Android is making more sales overall than iOS when annual sales are considered. GS III is a large part (but not all) of total Android sales. The next thing is to split out GS III sales from total Android sales.

15. PAPINYC (limited) yesterday, 00:57 posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:50 9 5

Don't worry this "anal'yzed" RESEARCH (cough, cough) is only fabricated (probably by Apple) so Apple shares can bounce back from their recent nose dive as, how can this be OFFICIAL if there is still more than a month remaining in Q4?? Android holiday sales will gobble-up this so-called "RESEARCH"!! This is more like one of those horrifically wrong weather forecasts!!

47. rusticguy posted on 27 Nov 2012, 18:55 2 0

Reminds me of Ancel Keys flawed 7 nation research which resulted in best ever scam which facilitated in incerasing the profits of pharma mafia who pushed STATIN Drugs more like ketchup ... and thus the scam ...

40. andro. posted on 27 Nov 2012, 14:15 2 2

This is a temporary thing,iphone sales are always high at launch due to ifans drooling cash,then the sales figures descend. Of course outside the apple crippled US the ios is being battered senseless in market share by android in most parts of the world. In my store the galaxy s3 alone outsells the iphone 5 by about 3 to 1 alone never mind even adding figures for other top android handsets. The short lived iphone rush is well and truely gone in alot of countries with customers seeking better products than the iphone

9. darkkjedii posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:24 1 12

Who is box, and why would your post b relevant

12. Droid_X_Doug posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:35 6 3

Market analytics firm? Just because they publish a report, doesn't make it gospel. I could post that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East, but that doesn't make it true. At one point a few hundred years ago, the Catholic church held that the Sun rotated around the Earth....

18. PAPINYC (limited) yesterday, 00:57 posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:56 2 3

iOMG, you mean it doesn't!?

22. darkkjedii posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:17 0 2

Droid actually the sun doesn't rise or set. The earth orbits the sun with us on, giving the illusion the the sun is moving around us when actually we r moving around it.

23. darkkjedii posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:18 1 1

My point is only when analyst list apple in the lead is their validity questioned. When android or Samsung is listed as the leader these same commenters never question it.

25. PAPINYC (limited) yesterday, 00:57 posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:35 3 1

Why question truth and fact? Android doesn't hire and pay "independent" MiSresearch Firms to market studies that in no way can be complete, given the fact that we're still in November of Q4. Samsung doesn't hire MiSresearch Firms to juxta'iPose their numbers to spike stock value. Talk to me in January 2013 when sales numbers for said devices become "official"!

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28. -box- posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:45 4 0

I question those sort of things all the time, especially when polls, surveys, and analyses are involved. There was one not long ago about the Lumia being the best-selling phone from one small retailer in the UK, and while that was great news, it isn't necessarily indicative of a worldwide (or even UK-wide) trend.
The figures might be accurate, but it would only be because more phones are being sold in the same quarter, that is, if androids consistently sell X number quarter-on-quarter, but iphones sell X amount of phones one quarter per year and fewer every other quarter, Androids will sell more phones overall (which is, in fact, roughly the case).

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27. Commentator posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:44 2 0

Why does it matter who has a larger market share anyways? Can't you just love the smartphone for the beauty that it represents, rather than being a slave to its public adoption?

39. nofear posted on 27 Nov 2012, 14:13 0 0

I think it is okay for people swarming in to buy a boring over price iPhone, iDevice only for not power user. That's what all about.

13. Droid_X_Doug posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:41 0 0

You are also seeing what happens when leaks about new products get out of control - sales of the 'old' toy fall off a cliff. Sammy manages that circumstance through aggressive discounting. Apple is too pure to discount - only the unwashed engage in discounting.

I wonder if details about the iP6 will be allowed to leak out? There was a reason Steve was so obsessed with controlling the release of product information.

16. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 27 Nov 2012, 08:53 1 0

It would indeed appear that Apple security/secrecy is dead.

I do believe it was the bigger screen though, even 4S owners upgraded. As close as the 4S is to the 5, the only real difference is the screen size being bigger. If that is indeed true, then every three to four years all Apple needs to do is add 1/4" to the screen and people will buy them in droves.

29. -box- posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:51 2 0

Not sure about the "buy them in droves thing"; they have to do a bit more than that. iphoners are becoming more aware of how stale and incapable their phones are, to the point that some of my die-hard apple friends returned their 5s and either switched to Galaxies (and one OneX+) or WindowsPhones or will wait for apple to release a OS overhaul to buy another.

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20. oister85 posted on 27 Nov 2012, 09:03 0 0

That's true here in the states ppl don't care about phone awesome specs. The people just buy the iPhone becouse is popular amongs them.

43. androiddownsouth posted on 27 Nov 2012, 14:47 0 0

I don't doubt that iPhones are selling well, I just don't think it's the iPhone 5 driving iPhone sales. I see tons of 4's and 4S's sold, close to a rate of 20 to 1 compared to the iPhone 5's. More people are going for the cheaper option. I'd hardly call what I've seen in my store "breakneck" speed of sales for iPhone 5's. All I'm doubting is ther percentage of iPhones being sold being mostly 5's.

I could be wrong, but I'm just going on what I've seen at my store.