iPhone Takes 17% of Smartphone Market
By James Falconer on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 11:37 AM PST In Apple, iPhone
Apple is now rumored to have met and surpassed their goal of shipping 10 million iPhones for the year. That’s a heck of a lot of iPhones if you ask me for such a short period of time. It kind of makes you wonder what their market share currently is!
Reports now have it that among smartphone devices, the iPhone now represents roughly 17% of the market. Not bad for such a young device.
How much further do you think Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) can take the iPhone? Do you think they will have to release different models of the phone… One perhaps with a physical QWERTY keyboard, perhaps another with a PTT (Push-to-Talk) feature? It seems as though they haven’t penetrated very deep into the business market as of yet, as large corporations still prefer their technology… From RIM in particular. With RIM diving into the touchscreen market with the Storm, would it be a step backwards for Apple to release a business focused, QWERTY device? It’s interesting to think about at the very least!
[Via: TechSpot]
I would like to see colors like the ipods personally. as for a slide out keyboard NO!! this is what makes a iphone so AWESOME…maybe a few better things like a actual movie camera, better camera with zoom, some office apps and for god sakes a flash player that actually would work to get real internet working on all websites. other then that a LOT larger HD and bluetooth stereo sound would be nice through a users headpeice.
Aren’t you mixing global vs USA sales here?
10 million units possibly made worldwide, but the 17% share is in the US only, I believe.
Yeah, Nokia has shipped 80 millions 3rd edition device, add the millions of the 2nd ed phones and millions smart phones from other brands you’ll realize that iphone has the 1.7 in the best case if it is smartphone after all!