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They have a 6,5% share in Q4 and not overall, basically all those numbers out there only mention quarters and not overall market shares and that's very misleadi
by DanielH 18y ago
They have a 6,5% share in Q4 and not overall, basically all those numbers out there only mention quarters and not overall market shares and that's very misleading. I have seen this on Techcrunch and many other blogs, where they put out 20% market share for the iPhone but if you consider there to be some 300 Mio. smartphones out there you get the real numbers ;).
- danw 18y agoWell spotted, I hadn't realised these were for Q4 sales, rather than market share in Q4. The 7% for the iPhone makes much more sense in this context.
- Tichy 18y agoCould you clarify please?
- DanielH 18y agoApple sold 6 Mio. iPhones till June and the whole smartphone market is about 300 mio. phones, that's 2%. The percentages mentioned on Techcrunch and all the other blogs mention selling figures per quarter. e.g. 35,522,360 smartphones sold in Q4 and 2,320,840 iPhones that means only 6,5% in this quarter and not in the whole market. I think it was 26% in Q1 2008 and 19% in Q2 2008 but as you see their market share is still only approximately 2% of all smartphones.