Canalys: iPhone most popular smartphone in the US, Android top OS
Tech analyst group Canalys has released a new report this week, showing that the iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the U.S., while Android remains the top OS.The group found that Apple's iPhone U.S. market share has jumped 26.2 percent since last quarter, making it the most popular smartphone (as far as hardware) in the U.S. In fact, it's a complete turnaround, as BlackBerries beat iPhones 32 to 21.7percent last quarter.
Globally it's another story as Android is firmly at the top of the heap, experiencing an incredible 1.309 percent increase from this time last year. It held 43.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market in the third quarter. Microsoft is on the outside looking in with just 3 percent of the global smartphone OS market. However, Redmond is hoping that Windows Phone 7 (and the massive advertising blitz behind it) will change that.
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Tech analyst group Canalys has released a new report this week, showing that the iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the U.S., while...
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iPad satisfaction rating at 95%
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/02/ipad-satisfaction-hits-95-in-october-changewave-survey-up-4-pts-from-may/?source=yahoo_quote
it'll be interesting to see how well WM7 does on launch. i have a feeling the interface itself may lure people away from a droid phone on the same hardware.
November 01 2010 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Beenyweenies
Plug in your brain and really read the info at the links
o ACSI - you know those customers are rating Apple as a company and that includes customer experience with computers, ipods, iphones, retail stores and after sales attention.
o Read the pie chart instead of making up stuff about it. Apple got 40% of the profits - period. Nothing about profit per handset.
Plug in your brain
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I'm not debating you, I'm telling you.
It's over
Hard to get a good comparison here because Android runs on so many phones, iOS runs on ONE phone. It's like saying the US grows a lot more apples than Georgia grows peaches
November 01 2010 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"The group found that Apple's iPhone U.S. market share has jumped 26.2 percent since last quarter.."
Not to be a stickler, but the author surely meant U.S. market share has jumped TO 26.2%, not increased market share by 26.2%. Big difference there.
It's a mistake, but the figures aren't that far off.
If these figures are correct and Apple had 21.7% last quarter and 26.2% this quarter then their share has gone up almost 21%
So now let's compare what really counts and we see that Apple completely blows away the competition
o Customer satisfaction - Apple up by 8% and tops 7th year running
http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=157&c=Apple+
Profit$ between each handset maker - Apple 40% profit share
http://www.tipb.com/2010/09/22/iphone-market-share-profit-share/
Case Closed
Your first link compares "Personal Computer" satisfaction ratings, not smart phones, so it's kind of pointless.
Your second argument, profit per device, is pretty irrelevant when the topic is "which OS is winning the smart phone market?" Apple could make a 1,000% profit on each iPhone, but that says nothing about their position in the market, hence the (admittedly tired) "Apple vs. Microsoft war" comparisons.
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