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The details were provided on Tuesday by Michael Walkley, analyst with Canaccord Genuity, to AppleInsider. He said Motorola's latest Android-based handset is not believed to have overtaken the iPhone in sales at Verizon.
That disputes what competing analyst Anil Doradla of William Blair said in a separate note issued Tuesday. Doradla's own channel checks, according to Apple 2.0, found that the Droid Razr Maxx has been the best selling smartphone at Verizon in June, bumping the iPhone to second place.
But that's not the case, according to Walkley, who said while the latest Razr is "gaining ground," it "hasn't caught iPhone." His own research has found the iPhone 4S as the top selling smartphone at Verizon, as well as AT&T and Sprint, for the entirety of 2012 thus far.
In a research note issued earlier this month, Walkley revealed that in the month of May, the iPhone 4S was the top selling smartphone in the U.S., despite what he called "gradual share losses" at each carrier. The iPhone 4S remained more popular than the Razr Maxx and Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which took second and third place, respectively, at Verizon in May.
At AT&T, the iPhone 4S also proved more popular than the second-place Nokia Lumia 900, and the third-place Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket. And at Sprint, the iPhone 4S topped the second-place Samsung Galaxy Nexus and third-place Samsung Galaxy S II.
But the iPhone 4S, which hit the market last October, now faces perhaps its biggest competitor yet in the form of Samsung's new Galaxy S III. It debuted in the U.S. last week with limited availability, but will eventually be available on all four of the largest carriers in the U.S. over the coming weeks.
Samsung said this week it is working to keep up with strong demand for the Galaxy S III, and the company expects to sell 10 million units to its carrier partners in July. Apple is expected to introduce its successor to the iPhone 4S later this year.
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MacRumors seems to have a different take on it.
[quote name="SolipsismX" url="/t/150917/apples-iphone-4s-remains-top-selling-smartphone-at-verizon#post_2134575"]MacRumors seems to have a different take on it.[/quote] MacRumors lives in its own little world where Apple fans are banned and trolls run free. Also, [I]*ahem* [/I] That can't be the case! Samsung shipped more devices! The iPhone can't be outselling it!
Either way, it looks like high end Android phones like the Maxx are gaining ground.
Juggle the numbers all you like, people are still happier with their iPhones :) I get little value from enjoying my device’s “sales ranking.” I get value from ease of use and quality of apps.
[quote name="Tallest Skil" url="/t/150917/apples-iphone-4s-remains-top-selling-smartphone-at-verizon#post_2134582"] MacRumors lives in its own little world where Apple fans are banned and trolls run free.[/quote] 1) Arn just made an update to his blog. It's two different reports not conflicting views on the same report. I guess now we can debate which one is more accurate. 2) I like Arn and his blog, while not even close to the thoroughness of AI, does have its charms. What I can't stand about his site if the forums. It's a bit unfair to compare it to AI forums because the posters here are, on the whole, much more objective and thoughtful in their understanding, desire to understand, and desire to communicate well that there is no other forum I frequent that even comes close. I don't know much of that is due to chance or to the overall design of AI but I'll take it either way.