the recent launch of iPhone4 entered the smart phone market. He was so in the sense that Apple Inc has said that advance orders for more than 600,000 new iPhones worldwide in the first day of the device became available, the flood of demand which has caused difficulties in processing orders U.S. carrier AT & T Inc
Apple's preorders are the most ever recorded by the company in one day, and 10 times higher than for the iPhone 3G last year.
AT & T had earlier suspended pre-orders for Apple iPhone 4 after the phone giant was unable to handle the record demand for the product, and the recent update that has sold more than 1.7 million iPhones in the first 4s three days on the phone launch
Analysts are expecting a new model that Apple would sell about 36 million iPhones in the year ending in September, up 73% from 20.8 million a year earlier.
Do you think Apple still go a long way to dominate the smart phone market, or to become a market leader? Take a look at these statistics.
Since its launch three years ago, the iPhone has become Apple's largest business, accounting for more than 40% of their income. According to research firm IDC, Apple is currently the third largest smart phone maker in the world with a market share of 16.1% share behind market leader Nokia and Research In Motion (BlackBerry ).
Apple iPhone has increased its delivery of a whopping 131.6% from Q1 2009 to Q1 2010 the most recent period (3.8-8.8 million). Compare that with an average 56.7% industry growth annually for the delivery of smart phones and start to get an idea about the growing influence of the iPhone in the smart phone market.
response to the recent iPhone4 received in the market and to grow at an impressive sales figures, iPhone growth rate of 131.6% compared to the annual delivery of smart phones is much higher than the industry average of 56 , 7%, all these factors suggest that Apple is on track to dominate the smart phone market. Although Nokia is in a comfortable position today with a market share of 39.3%, it faces the potential threat from the iPhone, and it poses an immediate threat to RIM (red berries) with a market share of 19.4%, bearing in mind stunning growth rate of Apple's iPhone, it is likely to increase ahead of blackberry in terms of market share very quickly.
Well, it will be interesting to see what the strategy of RIM and Nokia will adopt to defend its market position, when its rival Apple iPhone storms the market continues to sell like hot cakes.
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