Tag Archive | "market share"
Safari owns over 50% of mobile browser marketshare
Google views the smartphone market as nothing more than a numbers game. Getting Android handsets into as many hands as possible is their ultimate goal, and while they like to tout impressive numbers like 700,000 daily activations, the reality is that Android users are less likely to purchase apps than their iPhone counterparts and that [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4S sales in Europe slowing down due to slowing economy – Report
Friday, December 23, 2011
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No doubt aided by a build-up that took a few more months than expected, the iPhone 4S stormed out of the gate with a vengeance this past October as Apple sold over 4 million units in just the first weekend the device was on sale. Following that, CEO Tim Cook said during Apple’s October earnings [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4S is tops in the UK during October
Monday, November 28, 2011
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According to recently released data from NPD, the iPhone 4S was the most popular US smartphone during the third quarter of 2011. But the 4S’s success is not simply limited to the States. According to data compiled Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the most popular smartphone in the UK during the month of October was the iPhone [...]
Continue reading...iPhone 4 and 3GS are still more popular than new Android smartphones
Monday, November 14, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Even in a market flooded with Android devices, the popularity and success of the iPhone continues to flourish. During the third quarter of 2011, even as many were awaiting the release of the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS remained the top selling smartphones on the market according to data [...]
Continue reading...Tim Cook highlights rousing success of OS X Lion and the Mac
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
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By Sarah Petit: Tim Cook kicked off today’s keynote by highlighting the roaring success of the Mac and OS X Lion (sorry, we couldn’t help it). After starting off with an obligatory blurb from Walt Mossberg stating that OS X Lion is the “best operating system out there”, Cook dropped a number of interesting data [...]
Continue reading...If iPad sales were counted as Mac/PC sales [Chart]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
With the emphatic arrival of the iPad, there’s been growing talk of the iPad being a post PC device ushering in a new post PC era. Indeed, PC sales are beginning to slow down, with new data from Gartner relaying that PC shipments have been declining for three straight quarters here in the US. So [...]
Continue reading...IDC predicts Windows Phone 7 marketshare will surpass iOS marketshare by 2015
Monday, April 4, 2011
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Microsoft was late to the smartphone party, and their Windows Phone 7 offering has seen some less than stellar success, even in the context of its late entrance into an already mature market. Last week, the research firm IDC issued a report covering worldwide smartphone marketshare data for 2011. The report found that in 2011, Android’s [...]
Continue reading...By country, Switzerland has the highest Mac OS X market share in the world
Friday, March 18, 2011
As if we need more proof that the Swiss have an exquisite taste for good design, the Pingdom blog measured visitor data across a sample size of three million websites and found that Switzerland has the highest percentage of Mac users than any other with a 17.61% share. Luxembourg comes in second with a 15.79% [...]
Continue reading...Breaking down app store market share and revenue
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Whether or not you believe Apple app store success is rooted in dumb luck or foresight, there’s no denying that Apple’s been on the vanguard of a mobile app industry that has quickly become a multi-billion dollar business. Following in Apple’s footsteps, competitors like Google, Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft have all released competing app stores [...]
Continue reading...Android overtakes Nokia as the most popular smartphone platform in Q4 2010
Monday, January 31, 2011
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The research firm Canalys is reporting that Google’s Android platform is now more popular than Nokia’s Symbian platform, earning it the spot as the top smartphone platform on the market during the fourth quarter of 2010. During Q4 of 2010, Android handset sales came in at 33.3 million units while Nokia handset sales checked in [...]
Continue reading...Mobile marketshare broken down by geographic region [Photo]
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
An interesting graph courtesy of Pingdom breaks down the mobile OS marketshare across geographic regions. While it appears that Nokia’s Symbian OS still reigns supreme in Africa, Asia, and South America. the iPhone seems to have North America, Europe, and Australia on lockdown. Note, though, that this graph doesn’t purport to accurately reflect actual OS marketshare, [...]
Continue reading...iPhone accounts for 23% of business smartphones
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
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While many people may think of the iPhone as a cool little gadget good for playing games and browsing the web, Apple’s smartphoen is quietly making serious inroads into corporate America and threatening RIM’s longtime stranglehold in the business market. According to recent data compiled by ComScore, the iPhone now accounts for 22.7% of business [...]
Continue reading...iOS Internet share grows 216% in one year
Friday, December 3, 2010
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The vast majority of Internet traffic is still generated by PC’s these days, and while iOS internet share is insanely low by comparison, the year to year increase is astonishing – 216.3% to be exactly via NetApplications
Continue reading...Apple surpasses RIM in US smartphone marketshare
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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The latest data courtesy of Nielsen shows that Apple’s iPhone OS now commands a larger marketshare than RIM. And keep an eye out for Android, they’re catching up quickly. And per usual, the consortion of Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian OS, and the Palm OS continue to lag noticably behind.
Continue reading...Study: iPhone owners are the most loyal
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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GfK, a German market-research firm, recently surveyed 2,653 smartphone owners in Brazil, Germany, China, Britain, Spain, and the US and found that iPhone owners are by far the most loyal measured against all other mobile device owners. 59% of iPhone owners indicated that they plan on sticking with Apple for future phone purchases. 35% of [...]
Continue reading...iPad accounts for 95% of global tablet market
Friday, November 19, 2010
It’s good to be king, and make no mistake about it, when it comes to the tablet market, Apple is definitely a king among men. According to recent data compiled by Strategy Analytics, Apple’s iPad constituted 95% of all global tablet shipments during the most recent quarter. Android tablets, the closest competitor to the iPad [...]
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Friday, January 6, 2012
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