Gartner: iPhone Doubles Share of Smartphone Market Over Year-Ago Quarter
Research firm Gartner today released a report covering mobile phone sales for the first quarter of 2009. As part of the report, Gartner released sales figures and market share for the smartphone category, which includes Apple's iPhone. According to Gartner's numbers, Apple more than doubled its share of the worldwide smartphone market to 10.8%, up from 5.3% in the year-ago quarter, maintaining its third position behind Nokia and Research in Motion. The increase came in the context of a smartphone marker that grew by 12.7%, while the overall mobile market shrank by 9.4%.
Worldwide Smartphone Sales in 1Q09 in Thousands of Units (Source: Gartner)
While Apple's smartphone market share saw a significant increase over the year-ago quarter, it was essentially flat compared to Apple's 10.7% share in the fourth quarter of 2008. The quarter-to-quarter results do, however, indicate that iPhone sales held up relatively well as the current model progressed into what should end up being the latter half of its life cycle.
Research in Motion, which offers the BlackBerry line of smartphones, also saw strong sales, seeing its share of the worldwide smartphone market reach 19.9%, a nearly 50% increase over the year-ago quarter and up slightly over its 19.5% share in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Worldwide Smartphone Sales in 1Q09 in Thousands of Units (Source: Gartner)
While Apple's smartphone market share saw a significant increase over the year-ago quarter, it was essentially flat compared to Apple's 10.7% share in the fourth quarter of 2008. The quarter-to-quarter results do, however, indicate that iPhone sales held up relatively well as the current model progressed into what should end up being the latter half of its life cycle.
Research in Motion, which offers the BlackBerry line of smartphones, also saw strong sales, seeing its share of the worldwide smartphone market reach 19.9%, a nearly 50% increase over the year-ago quarter and up slightly over its 19.5% share in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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39 months ago
It'd be nice to see where Palm comes in on market share a year after they release.
Meanwhile, WTG, iPhone!
:apple:
Meanwhile, WTG, iPhone!
:apple:
39 months ago
It'd be nice to see where Palm comes in on market share a year after they release.
Don't Palm already make smartphones?
39 months ago
THAT'S NOTHING!
Wait until Microsoft enters the market. Then you Apple fanboys will tremble in fear.
Wait until Microsoft enters the market. Then you Apple fanboys will tremble in fear.
39 months ago
Well done, Apple. Now let's end the censorship in the app store and improve the approval process.
39 months ago
Looks like Otheris taking a hammering, they won't be in business this time next year.
39 months ago
Don't Palm already make smartphones?
For certain values of "smart" perhaps...
Still the Pre has a chance to do quite well I think. There are a couple of segments of possible users.
First, there are surely some Palm true believers who will jump at it.
Some people will decide primarily based on the feature list matching their desires.
Some people will want to try it just to be different, or because they are unhappy with whatever phone (or carrier) they are currently using. Maybe to be able to claim they were early adopters in case it takes off.
39 months ago
I always wonder what qualifies a smartphone. The Nokia 5800 is included though the Nokia E or N serie isn't!? :confused:
In total sales numbers the iPhone has around 1.5% market share.
In total sales numbers the iPhone has around 1.5% market share.
39 months ago
It just seems to me like Apple is totally shooting themselves in the foot by only being with one carrier. I know a minimum of 4 people, myself included, who would've bought iPhones if it wasn't tied exclusively to AT&T.
This isn't about AT&T being a lousy company with high prices and poor customer service (which is all true)... this is about NOT BEING ABLE TO GET RECEPTION WHERE WE LIVE. In the middle of a gigantic metropolis area known as Los Angeles.
One of my friends actually went out and bought the frickin' iPhone, only to find out that she has ZERO AT&T RECEPTION anywhere inside her lovely 5-bedroom mansion right in the Los Feliz area near Western and Hollywood Blvd. This is by no means the boondocks... she is literally 2 minutes from downtown Hollywood. She could only get reception by standing all the way out in the back of her yard, all the way behind the pool. Thinking that maybe it was the iPhone, she bought a Blackberry from AT&T instead. Same exact problem. She switched back to T-Mobile, which gives her perfect reception. Meanwhile, my Sprint phone worked perfectly as well.
Another one of my friends lives up in the Hollywood Hills, one of the wealthiest and most populated areas of Los Angeles. It is widely known throughout Los Angeles that AT&T does not have ANY reception up in this area, which is home to hundreds of thousands of people -- and wealthy influential ones at that. She actually BOUGHT the frickin' iPhone too, and resorted to using a landline from her home when she was home. She would just keep checking her iPhone voicemail from a landline a dozen times per night to see if she missed any calls. Finally, after 3 months of that nonsense, she went back to Sprint. We talked about the possibility of her auto-forwarding her calls from her cell phone to her landline, but she nixed that idea because she just knew that she would forget to UN-forward it every morning when she left the house. In any case, no matter what the solution, it would've been a nightmare. And it was a nightmare.
Another one of my friends also lives up in a different part of the Hollywood Hills, and has been clinging onto her Sprint Treo 650 for years. She has been dying to get the iPhone, and always tests her friends' iPhones when they come up to visit her. ZERO BARS. So now she's forced into getting the Palm Pre when it comes out next month.
AT&T simply has horrible coverage in Los Angeles, and I'm sure that this is the same in many other places as well.
It is absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous that Apple would be shooting themselves in the foot like this.
There are EAGER CUSTOMERS who WANT TO BUY THE FRICKIN' IPHONE, BUT THEY CANNOT DO SO BECAUSE IT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE CARRIER WHICH WORKS WHERE THEY LIVE. And so, these customers end up signing 2-year contracts with other providers and then get hooked on a Blackberry or whatever other phone they end up getting.
Apple, open up your phone to other carriers, just like RIM has done! It's no surprise that RIM has a greater marketshare than Apple! Their phones are available on EVERY SINGLE CARRIER EVERYWHERE!
This isn't about AT&T being a lousy company with high prices and poor customer service (which is all true)... this is about NOT BEING ABLE TO GET RECEPTION WHERE WE LIVE. In the middle of a gigantic metropolis area known as Los Angeles.
One of my friends actually went out and bought the frickin' iPhone, only to find out that she has ZERO AT&T RECEPTION anywhere inside her lovely 5-bedroom mansion right in the Los Feliz area near Western and Hollywood Blvd. This is by no means the boondocks... she is literally 2 minutes from downtown Hollywood. She could only get reception by standing all the way out in the back of her yard, all the way behind the pool. Thinking that maybe it was the iPhone, she bought a Blackberry from AT&T instead. Same exact problem. She switched back to T-Mobile, which gives her perfect reception. Meanwhile, my Sprint phone worked perfectly as well.
Another one of my friends lives up in the Hollywood Hills, one of the wealthiest and most populated areas of Los Angeles. It is widely known throughout Los Angeles that AT&T does not have ANY reception up in this area, which is home to hundreds of thousands of people -- and wealthy influential ones at that. She actually BOUGHT the frickin' iPhone too, and resorted to using a landline from her home when she was home. She would just keep checking her iPhone voicemail from a landline a dozen times per night to see if she missed any calls. Finally, after 3 months of that nonsense, she went back to Sprint. We talked about the possibility of her auto-forwarding her calls from her cell phone to her landline, but she nixed that idea because she just knew that she would forget to UN-forward it every morning when she left the house. In any case, no matter what the solution, it would've been a nightmare. And it was a nightmare.
Another one of my friends also lives up in a different part of the Hollywood Hills, and has been clinging onto her Sprint Treo 650 for years. She has been dying to get the iPhone, and always tests her friends' iPhones when they come up to visit her. ZERO BARS. So now she's forced into getting the Palm Pre when it comes out next month.
AT&T simply has horrible coverage in Los Angeles, and I'm sure that this is the same in many other places as well.
It is absolutely ridiculous and ludicrous that Apple would be shooting themselves in the foot like this.
There are EAGER CUSTOMERS who WANT TO BUY THE FRICKIN' IPHONE, BUT THEY CANNOT DO SO BECAUSE IT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE CARRIER WHICH WORKS WHERE THEY LIVE. And so, these customers end up signing 2-year contracts with other providers and then get hooked on a Blackberry or whatever other phone they end up getting.
Apple, open up your phone to other carriers, just like RIM has done! It's no surprise that RIM has a greater marketshare than Apple! Their phones are available on EVERY SINGLE CARRIER EVERYWHERE!
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