Apple iPhone sales goes up 375 % in Q2
8/15/2009 04:29:00 PM - 0 comments
It’s August, and the much anticipated Q2 results for the smartphone market is out! As all smartphones in the fray have tried to put their best foot forward in fighting global meltdown and cut-throat competition, Apple iPhone still rules the roost with higher sales and increasing market share.
Apple iPhone is on the winning spree with 13.3 percent of market share and 375 % growth leaving behind the drifted sales record of Nokia's Symbian smartphones, the gradually sinking Microsoft's Windows Mobile and the Palm Pre, which is just able to make a ripple in the global smartphone market. The other smartphone which is able to pull through the competition with a slight positive swing is RIM’s BlackBerry.
Gartner's Q2 mobile phone report: Smartphone sales outnumber Mobile phones
Market research firm Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report is ecstatic about the burgeoning market trends of smartphones over mobile phones as its sales went up 27%. At the same time, worldwide Q2 results for mobile phone sales which amounted to 268.1 million i.e. down 6.1 percent against the Q2 of previous year citing global recessionary trend.
Similarly, Apple has had a fantastic increase in market share among smartphones in the second quarter with a jump to 13.3 percent from 10.8 percent in first quarter and from 2.8 percent in Q2 2008. The only smartphone that Apple is closing in on is Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry with an 18.7% share from 17.3 % in Q2 2008. While simultaneously, the market leader Nokia seems to be slowly losing its ground as its share went down from 47.4% in Q2 2008 to 45% in this year.
Gartner's Q2 mobile phone report:Apple iPhone is the winner
The report has also hailed Apple as the strongest contender and a winner with its sales growing leader more than 500% year-to-year, and a growing market share of 375%. Not only has Apple iPhones sales propelled in the last quarter, the company as per Gartner report has also gone in to maintain third place in global sales among smartphone companies.
The growing sales record of Apple Inc. own much credit to its business and marketing strategy that includes foraying into new markets, making price adjustments (e.g. the recent price adjustments on the 8GB3G iPhone to $99) and product strategy of consistently offering its customers new and upgraded iPhone devices at the service of its huge and growing customer base.
If you ever intend to make a case study of the recent launch of the much-anticipatediPhone 3G S, you can observe a breakthrough increase in sales figures in the second half of 2009. So, you can very well anticipate the growth in sales for the Q3 and Q4 for Apple iPhones. This goes on to show that whatever new strategy is invested in the present quarter, its results will henceforth, be reaped in the following quarter.
Posted: Seuli.B
Gartner's Q2 mobile phone report: Smartphone sales outnumber Mobile phones
Market research firm Gartner's 2009 Q2 mobile phone report is ecstatic about the burgeoning market trends of smartphones over mobile phones as its sales went up 27%. At the same time, worldwide Q2 results for mobile phone sales which amounted to 268.1 million i.e. down 6.1 percent against the Q2 of previous year citing global recessionary trend.
Similarly, Apple has had a fantastic increase in market share among smartphones in the second quarter with a jump to 13.3 percent from 10.8 percent in first quarter and from 2.8 percent in Q2 2008. The only smartphone that Apple is closing in on is Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry with an 18.7% share from 17.3 % in Q2 2008. While simultaneously, the market leader Nokia seems to be slowly losing its ground as its share went down from 47.4% in Q2 2008 to 45% in this year.
Gartner's Q2 mobile phone report:
The report has also hailed Apple as the strongest contender and a winner with its sales growing leader more than 500% year-to-year, and a growing market share of 375%. Not only has Apple iPhones sales propelled in the last quarter, the company as per Gartner report has also gone in to maintain third place in global sales among smartphone companies.
The growing sales record of Apple Inc. own much credit to its business and marketing strategy that includes foraying into new markets, making price adjustments (e.g. the recent price adjustments on the 8GB
If you ever intend to make a case study of the recent launch of the much-anticipated
Posted: Seuli.B
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