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I think that's being just a wee bit unfair. Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, A
by abritinthebay 11y ago
I think that's being just a wee bit unfair.
Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones that quarter. In other words - the iPhone had ~27% of the US Market sales.
That's... not a rounding error. That's an incredible and wild success. The price drop after September helped of course - but they'd already sold over 1 million iPhones by then anyhow.
By the end of the year they had a 5% market share worldwide. Nothing to sniff at for something only 6 months old.
- Marazan 11y agoSure, if you want to define the market as "things similar to the iphone" then yes, they did have a good market share. In terms of the mobile phone market though the original iphone made up lezs that 1%of the market. It took the 3G to change the world.
- abritinthebay 11y agoSure but seeing as that included non smartphones that's a bit... well stupid of a metric to use. I mean it's like complaining that Aston Martin is a failure in car market because Chevrolet sells more cars.
- Marazan 11y agoWell, yes. But as I pointed out below the iPhone's sales figures were identical to the N95 and no one is claiming the N95 was a massive success. When the iPhone launched the "smart phone market" didn't exist - there were a couple of other smart phones. It was a incredibly niche category.