Android gaining on Apple iOS in mobile web market share

Android's share of U.S. mobile web traffic climbed to 25% in August in its best one month gain since Nov. 2009.

Josh Ong 15 years ago 348

Android-based smartphone shipments leapfrog Apple's iPhone

Shipments of smartphones running Google's Android operating system outpaced iPhones for the first time during the second quarter of the year, as sales of all integrated mobile devices worldwide rose more than 50% to 61.6 million units.

Kasper Jade 15 years ago 351

Apple's iPhone captures 17% of worldwide smartphone market

In less than two and a half years on the market, Apple's iPhone has managed nearly a fifth of the total global smartphone market, thanks to nearly 50 percent year-over-year growth in sales in the third quarter of 2009.

AppleInsider Staff 16 years ago 65

iPhone sales predicted to top 80 million by 2012

New reports forecast that Apple will sell 50 million phones in 2011, and more than 80 million in 2012, as worldwide expansion and popularity of the iPhone continues to grow.

Sam Oliver 16 years ago 37

Report: iPhone grabs 32% of global handset profits

Apple's iPhone now accounts for 8% of all mobile phone revenue and a whopping 32% of the industry's handset profits, according to figures published by Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 182

Nearly half of prospective smartphone buyers to choose iPhone

Even amid turbulent times, smartphone adoption continues to rise, with a new study revealing that nearly half of those consumers who plan to make a new smartphone purchase in the next three months will buy an iPhone.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 73

Apple shares of smartphone market up more than twofold

Apple saw its share of global smartphone market more than double on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of the year but still has much work to do before catching BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and market leader Nokia.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 148

BlackBerry unseats iPhone as most popular smartphone in Q1

Aggressive promotions through its US wireless carrier helped push BlackBerry maker Research in Motion ahead Apple and the iPhone to take honors as the most popular smartphone maker during the first quarter of 2009.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 166

Survey highlights iPhone impact among mobiles

A new US survey reveals a general decline in mobile phone growth, a mass exodus from Sprint to other carriers, a significant but relaxing demand for the iPhone, a failure of the Android G1 to have much impact for T-Mobile, but continued strength in the smartphone segment.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 15

iPhone's US web presence beats RIM and WiMo combined

The popularity of Apple's WiFi mobile platform as a handheld web browser device is rapidly accelerating worldwide and dominating web traffic in the US, according to a new report issued by mobile advertising firm AdMob. Apple's strong position promises to color how the mobile web develops.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 24

Apple's smartphone share closer to 13%, still ahead of Microsoft

Apple's share of the worldwide smartphone market is closer to 13% than the 16% reported earlier this week, but that's still good enough to push the iPhone maker past Microsoft to become the third largest smartphone OS vendor, according to Gartner.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 50

iPhone single-handedly driving smartphone growth

In addition to outselling a broad and combined range of Windows Mobile handsets, Apple's iPhone 3G is being credited this week as the lone force responsible for growth of the smartphone market during the September quarter.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 18

Apple pulling away from competition in teenage mindshare

Apple in the last six months has broadened its lead among the teenage demographic in the areas of mobile phones and digital music, a critical indicator of the company's long-term growth prospects in those respective markets.

Slash Lane 17 years ago 19

Rising iPhone browser share points to sales of 5 million 3G units

The iPhone's share of the worldwide browser market has increased nearly twofold following the release of the iPhone 3G last month, leading researchers at PacificCrest to suggest that September quarter sales of the device may be tracking 1.5 million units ahead of expectations.

Slash Lane 17 years ago 26

Apple now the world's No. 3 smartphone vendor

Apple during the first quarter of 2008 rode the booming smartphone market to sales of more than 1.7 million iPhones, good enough to make it the No. 3 manufacturer of multi-function handsets worldwide, according to a report released Friday by market research firm Gartner.

Sam Oliver 18 years ago 66

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