iPhone Captures 2.5% of Global Market
As easy as it is for us to become entirely enamoured with our wonderful phones, it’s easy to forget that the iPhone is a luxury device, with a high operating cost, and still controls a relatively small portion of the market. Even if it does seem like everyone you know has one.
Globally, the iPhone has about 2.5% of the market share, says Strategy Analytics, which is a fraction of their 30% in the United States. While admittedly the iPhone is Apple’s only device, Nokia, Samsung and Motorola each have more than 20% of the world using their devices, and LG has 11%. Given these companies all produce a much wider variety of phones, both smart and not-so-smart, it would be interesting to see the numbers comparing individual smartphones.
[via 9to5Mac]
Tags: Apple, Financial, LG, Market Share, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung
This shows the opportunity there still is for Apple to drive penetration worldwide. They’ve proven themselves as an expert device maker. The only major negative about the iPhone for right now (in the U.S.) is it’s exclusivity with AT&T, whose service is sub-par. Aside from that (which we all know is soon going away anyway), they continue to take their iPhone to the next level.
First the U.S….now the world! (Insert sinister laughter…)