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IDC claims iPhone marketshare has grown 115%

by Mike Schramm Apr 29th 2011 at 3:00PM

The International Data Corporation reports that Apple has been taking over the smartphone market in the past few years, with its market share growing by almost 115% over the past year. Apple's still not on top of the list (as there are much more established manufacturers on there, and as we've heard, Apple has some competitors for market share as well), but the company's growth is phenomenal, and has earned it a number four spot on the top five list worldwide, with 5% of the global market.

Even more phenomenal, of course, is the fact that Apple has basically done this with one phone, rather than competitors' multiple lines and flavors of smartphones and operating systems. When the company first started selling smartphones, it said that the goal was to get at least 1% of the global market, so not only has it beaten that goal five times over, but of course it's earned record revenues to match as well.

[via MacRumors]



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Michael

Not only is the title misleading (as already mentioned, it's not the market share that's grown 115%, it's the number of shipping devices), but also is it no the market share that's at 5%, it's the share of shipped units in 2011Q1. As the Verizon iPhone was introduced in that quarter, this may very well give skewed numbers.

April 29 2011 at 6:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cy Starkman

I think the data is referring to mobile phones not to smartphones.

Firstly by the numbers involved, second by reporting elsewhere.

April 29 2011 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
backwoodsperry

Pretty sure your numbers are a little off. The shipments have grown by 115%, but the marketshare growth is less than 100% (rising from 2.8 to 5.0).

April 29 2011 at 3:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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wolf

I was thinking the same thing. How would 2.8% to 5% be 115% growth? Of course unit numbers are up more than marketshare, becasue the smartphone market continues to expand as a whole.

April 29 2011 at 4:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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