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IDC Report Confirms Apple is World’s Number One Smartphone Maker in Q2

It was previously reported Apple had become the world's largest smartphone maker, but yesterday IDC's own industry report confirmed it. Apple shipped 106.5 million smartphones in the second quarter, claiming a 19.1% share. Samsung followed in second place at 16.2% share, then Nokia in third place at 15.7%, and RIM next with 11.6%. The slow...

Apple Surpasses Nokia to Become the World’s Largest Smartphone Maker

The latest report from Strategy Analytics show Apple has 'blown away' the competition in total smartphone sales, finally beating Nokia and just narrowly edging out Samsung, in Q2 of 2011. Global smartphone shipments grew a healthy 76 percent annually to reach a record 110 million units in Q2 2011. We had previously reported on Apple...

Apple Takes Smartphone Crown From Nokia

We learned a lot at Apple's 2011 Q3 Earnings call, and today Financial Times reports that the Apple has surpassed Nokia as the world's biggest smartphone producer by volume. Some numbers: The troubled Finnish mobile phone maker made a net loss of €368m ($524m) during the three-month period as revenues declined 7 per cent to €9.3bn. Shipments of Nokia smartphones...

Apple Posts Best Performance Among Top 5 Smartphone Competitors in Q1

According to a new IHS iSuppli report, Apple's iPhone sales in Q1 propelled it to achieve double-digit growth in the smartphone market, eluding an overall decline in smartphone shipments in the first quarter. Apple shipped 18.6 million iPhones, up 14.9% (16.2 million a year ago), and their increase was the highest growth among its competitors,...

The Anatomy of Mobile Failure: RIM, Nokia, Microsoft

Galen Gruman on the failure of mobile products from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia: RIM particularly played up its cozy relationship with security- and control-minded CIOs who would never let such toys into the enterprise. Nokia and Microsoft had the same paternalistic, insular point of view. (Dell’s story is more like that of the OEMs—I’ll get...

Apple Surpasses Nokia as World’s Largest Handset Maker By Revenue

With yesterday's Q2 2011 earnings call by Apple, another milestone has been reached by the surging California-based company. Apple is now the world's largest handset maker by revenue. Apple’s revenues from the iPhone: $11.9 billion for the quarter Nokia's revenues from all phones: $9.4 billion for the quarter Apple iPhones shipped: 18.6 million Nokia's handsets...

Apple Changed the Game. Again.

In an interesting read from our friends at 9to5Mac, Nokia CEO Stephan Elop speaks candidly about Nokia's position in the smartphone market. I won't quote the whole article but at one point Elop comments, "The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don’t have a product that is close to their experience.". They go...

iPhone Users Are the Most Loyal Out of All Smartphone Users

A recent survey by German research firm Gfk noted that Apple iPhone users are the most loyal compared to other smartphone brands. According to Reuters: "Loyalty with a handset is a lot more complicated these days in that people buy into experiences at the high-end level," Ryan Garner, the lead analyst on the survey, told...

Winners and Losers of the Smartphone Industry

Recently we debated about whether or not Apple would win the current smartphone "war". With real competition finally on the rise, how will Apple respond? What's more interesting is analyzing which companies haven't responded and putting all this data into easy to read flow charts. This is what Horace Dediu has done on his blog,...