Apple (AAPL) Annihilates Smartphone Competition, Takes Global Lead with 121% Sales Surge in Q4
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According to new data out of research firm Gartner, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) moved into the number one spot as the world's top smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter with a 23.8 percent market share. Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android topped the list at 50.9 percent, but more than one company produces Android-based devices.
Apple more than doubled overall mobile device (which includes tablets, as one example) shipments from 3.5 percent last year to 7.4 percent in the fourth quarter. Second-place Samsung rose from 17.5 percent market share to 19.4 percent, while first-place Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fell from 27.1 percent share to 23.4 percent.
One Gartner analyst commented, "Western Europe and North America led most of the smartphone growth for Apple during the fourth quarter of 2011. In Western Europe the spike in iPhone sales in the fourth quarter saved the overall smartphone market after two consecutive quarters of slow sales." Apple's smartphone sales increased 121 percent to 35.46 million.
Global smartphone sales for all providers grew 47.3 percent to 149 million units.
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Apple more than doubled overall mobile device (which includes tablets, as one example) shipments from 3.5 percent last year to 7.4 percent in the fourth quarter. Second-place Samsung rose from 17.5 percent market share to 19.4 percent, while first-place Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fell from 27.1 percent share to 23.4 percent.
One Gartner analyst commented, "Western Europe and North America led most of the smartphone growth for Apple during the fourth quarter of 2011. In Western Europe the spike in iPhone sales in the fourth quarter saved the overall smartphone market after two consecutive quarters of slow sales." Apple's smartphone sales increased 121 percent to 35.46 million.
Global smartphone sales for all providers grew 47.3 percent to 149 million units.
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