June 8th, 2008
IPhone Eating Into Nokia’s Smartphone Share
Looks like the iPhone has been eating away Nokia’s share. Not surprising as Apple is really marketing their Iphones as the ultimate mobile device.
Nokia’s first-quarter global market share of so-called smartphones fell to 45.2 percent from 46.7 percent a year earlier, Gartner said today in an e-mailed statement. Research In Motion increased its share to 13.4 percent from 8.3 percent. Apple grabbed 5.3 percent of the market with its iPhone music player and handset, which wasn’t available a year ago.
This seems a bit contradictory to what Abe just posted on on how the blackberry is still beating the iphone:
According to a recent IDC report, RIM’s Blackberry beat out the Apple iPhone 2-to-1 in the first quarter of 2008. Despite Apple’s bulling marketing and hype, it looks like the Blackberry is still king of the smartphones. Can’t believe it either.
Sales versus market share and IDC versus Gartner. Which to believe eh?
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