A recent report from Canalys indicates that iPhone marketshare in both in the US and abroad continues to accelerate at an impressive rate.
Canalys’ data found that Apple’s share of the US smartphone market in Q2 2009 came in at 23%, up from 7% during the same period a year-ago and representing an astounding 365% increase year to year.
RIM’s US marketshare remained somewhat steady, but experienced a slight drop, coming in with a marketshare of 52%, down from 56.4% during the same period a year ago.
Globally, Apple’s share of the smartphone market increased from 2.1% to 13.7% over the past year, representing an even more astounding 626% increase year to year. Rim experienced slight gains, with their marketshare increasing from 16.7% worldwide to 20.9%. Globally, Nokia is still king, with its Symbian OS occupying an impressive 50.3% share of all smartphones worldwide. Year to year, though, Nokia’s smartphone market share slipped with last years number coming in at 58.2%.
Windows Mobile, meanwhile, experienced a worldwide decline in their OS marketshare, going from 14.3% last year to 9% this year, and given the abysmal reviews that have been levied upon Windows Mobile 6.5, it doesn’t Microsoft will be re-claiming any of that lost marketshare anytime soon.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Re: Globally, Apple’s share of the smartphone market increased from 2.1% to 5.2% over the past year, representing an even more astounding 626% increase year to year.
You used the Shipments figure (5.2m) and called it the % Share figure (which is actually 13.7, not 5.2) …
October 12th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Even though the iPhone’s growth rate is impressive, you can imagine how extremely impressive it will be for Android, based on an analyst’s prediction, to jump into second place in smartphone U.S. and global market share in a couple of more years. Companies will have be pumping out Android smartphones at an astounding rate in order to fulfill this prophecy. It would have to be done by thousands of percent growth rate to blow past all the non-Android OSes.