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Originally Posted by kartu
Smartphones:
Apple has 18.5% of smartphone market (worldwide) as of Q2 2011 (26% in US). Samsung is quite close with 17.5%. Source.
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I think the point is that Apple's share is
up from 13.5% in 2010. So the Android growth is not coming at Apple's expense, but from others, largely Nokia Symbian devices. From that article:
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Apple surpassed Nokia by revenue and profit for the first time in Q2 2011. Apple's iPhone sales also overtook Nokia's Symbian smartphone volume shipments by 20.3 million and 16.7 million respectively, although Nokia had already announced plans to phase Symbian out.
Between Q2 2010 and Q2 2011 Nokia's Symbian smartphone sales dropped significantly from 38.1 percent to 15.2 percent, while Samsung smartphone sales increased significantly from 5.0 percent to 17.5 percent.
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