Research Firm says Apple doubled its U.S. smartphone market share in Q4, topped Android
0. phoneArena posted on 25 Jan 2012, 04:46
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said thanks to Apple's impressively strong fourth calendar quarter, its share of U.S. smartphone sales doubled to 44.9% which allowed Apple to overtake Google by the slimmest of margins as the top selling smartphone OS in the States...
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3. rd_nest posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:00 1 2
We will see how long the run continues. Samsung is just behind and was actually leading a quarter before. Can they sell more than 50 million iphones this quarter? lets wait and see.
4. darac posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:44 9 2
OK , regardless of what the report tries to explain, on a worldwide scale android is still way ahead of IOS.
HERE, TO CLEAR THINGS OUT :
iPhones sold - 37 millions
Samsung android phones sold - approx. 30 mil.
HTC android phones sold - approx. 9 mill.
Sony Ericsson androids sold - 7. 2 millions
Motorola - around 5 millions android phones
LG - around 4 millions (conservative guess )
..and then you have the Huawei and ZTE, Acer, Asus, and a zillion Chinese android copies
..OVERALL, ANYWHERE FROM 55-60 MILLION ANDROID PHONES SOLD IN Q 4
17. coculus posted on 25 Jan 2012, 10:31 3 3
... but android fan are stupid or are desperate to appear happy. !???
37 millions iphones !!! 1 phone vs 88888 different phone from the entire world !!!
I have nokia n95 :)
26. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 17:56 0 0
@darac. Yes, regardless what the report has to say about Apple's success, you will have your own numbers, along with other fandroids, that you have cooked up from your grandma's kitchen :)
5. c.hack posted on 25 Jan 2012, 06:47 5 7
5% drop in Android market share is telling. The people that bought a Droid without thinking about reliability or user experience finally are waking up and buying iPhones.
Meanwhile, Samsung is busy focusing on commercials...... lol
6. andro. posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:09 6 3
Although Apple may have been apple to sell so 37 million iphones considering the ifan "I'll buy everything apple" mentality but introspect Android phones are nearing the 1 million new activations per day mark so in about just over one month alone apples figures would be surpassed and not look as impressive.
Also these figures are the result of so many recent ifans upgrading in a rash flurry to the 'new' iphone as they had no alternative as the iphone 5 didn't arrive. Apple simply made huge profits off them selling the same phone.
Q1 and q2 are generally also the busier time of the year for android sales as the top innovating phones of the year are all announced at wmc and released soon after,sales figures surge across the board at this time for several new android models,eg. Sony xperia s,galaxy s3,htc,motorola etc.
27. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 18:11 1 0
@andro. If we have the "I'll buy anything Apple" mentality, what would you call your mentality then? "I'll buy anything android" mentality? Lol.
If android picks up its pace and surpasses ios in the next quarter, then so be it if it happens. But right now, ios reigns. So why can't you just wait and see when it happens? Is it because Apple's victory is so hard for you to accept? Are you crazy that Apple's success over android affects you so much? Lol.
A huge number of iphone adopters are new ones from Verizon and Sprint. So how can you say that upgraders are solely responsible for this huge success? Do you have a breakdown of ip4s buyers? I can site you several reports that claim that a huge number of ip4s buyers are blackberry and android users.
All qrtrs are busy for android. Android oem's release new phones every month. This month Htc, next month Samsung, the following month Motorola, and the next Sony, etc.... So don't say that only the 1st and 2nd qrtrs are the busier times for android. The last iphone release was 2010. The ip4s does not really count as a new iphone because it's just a minor ip4 upgrade. Even you fandroids say that it's no different from the ip4 right? So it is not a new iphone. Matter of fact, you fandroids say that the ip4s is no different from the very first iphone. With that said, there's only 1 iphone, and it's almost five years old, and it's still kicking a$$ :)
7. taz89 posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:22 5 1
apple also had a extra week in this quarter and considering it was recently released in China they could have added 4 to 5 millions iPhone in that week...
8. kylie posted on 25 Jan 2012, 07:32 7 2
new iphone was launched this quarter
the prices of older iphones were dropped this week
steve job's death was a free ad for aapple this quarter
this was the fastest ever launch of apple's iphone this quarter
this was the quarter of holidays....
all factors that boosted the sales.
See what happens next. I Do Not See anything positive for them in times ahead...
28. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 18:13 0 0
@kylie. What's the next factor for the iphone's success? I'm sure you'll figure something out that has nothing to do with the real reason for its success :)
10. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 08:49 6 4
This is sales, not market share. And it's only for the US, apple's only big market.
29. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 18:18 1 1
It's both sales and market share in the US. China and US have the biggest consumers. So making it big in the US does matter a lot. Unless you tell us that the number 1 os in Cambodia is what matters more.
11. SuperAndroidEvo posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:02 6 3
Yeah the iPhone sold 37 million. That includes the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4, & the iPhone 3GS. That is all. Android is going to see an explosion once the quad-core phones start to ship from Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Sony, LG,.......
Apple had a lot of sales but a huge number of those sales were the older cheaper iPhone 4 & iPhone 3GS. There is going to be a lot of buyer’s remorse once people see how much less stuff can be accomplished on those older iPhone models, compared to the quad-core storm that Android is about to unleash.
Google/Android = NOT worried! lol
30. 530gemini posted on 25 Jan 2012, 18:27 0 1
@superfandroid. I thought you fandroids say that the ip4s is no different than the previous iphones. So why are you know dissecting them by models? Lol.
Why can't you wait for android quad core phones to explode before you brag about it? Is Apple's success too much for you to bear that you want to discredit it right away? Lol.
Also, it's been noted several times already that the ip4s is the bestselling iphone yet. So why are you crediting it to the older iphones? I can't believe you have not read those articles when you comment on every article related to the iphone much more than any iphone uses, lol.
I'm sure that google/android is not worried. But YOU definitely are worried :)
35. SuperAndroidEvo posted on 26 Jan 2012, 12:56 1 0
I am just stating that the iPhone 4 & the iPhone 3GS padded the "iPhone" sales. If it was just the iPhone 4S then it would say iPhone 4S not "iPhones".
You are right Google/Android is not worried, but you are wrong in thinking I am worried.
What you don't like the iPhone 4 & the iPhone 3GS are skewing your iPhone 4S sales numbers? I would really like to see how many of the iPhone 4S were sold in the 37 million that was quoted.
12. hepresearch posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:39 2 5
About four months ago, I predicted that if Apple won its lawsuits against Samsung and HTC, that iOS would pass Android in US marketshare in one to two years. I also said that if Apple failed to win against Samsung and HTC, that iOS would still pass Android in around three years. Either way, Apple would end up representing at least three out of every four smartphones used in the US by 2020.
Here we are... four months later, and still in the midst of the ever-escalating patent wars with no solid official winners; however, Apple is already in the process of catching back up to and barely passing Android. I thought that Android would have another six months of steadily beating iOS before Apple would start catching up again... although I am not really shocked, I am quite surprised and a bit shaken. Sure, this will all settle down in a few months and we will see where everyone sort of stands at baseline, but next year at this time Apple will be blowing everyone out of the water handily if the iPhone 5 ends up being what most people have already said it will be. Perhaps my analysis was (far) too conservative. I am not happy about it, but there is nothing that I can do to change that, either. Oh well...
14. remixfa posted on 25 Jan 2012, 09:46 5 4
dont put the cart before the horse, Hep.
Again, this is US only, SALES only for 1 quarter. This does NOT show market share at all.
In the world, android outsold apple by a large margin. And after the first quarter with a new phone + holiday sales bump is over, apple's "dominance" will be back into second place. Android's sales graph is a consistent uphill. Apple's sales graph is a large spike when the new phone launches and then it slides back down.
