Comments on: iPhone Loses 20% Market Share in Past 4 Months (Chart)

By: Bebaile

Bebaile — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:28:52 +0000

Hi everybody ! For your information, the source is Admob, a mobile advertising agency and the % of request refers to the % of requests made from a given device or OS. Allthough it gives an indication of all the market powers, it should not be interpreted as (sales) market shares, all the more that only devices with applications embedding admob's adds are represented. However that may be, it is right to say that android is winning some market shares but not as was intrepreted here
Regards

By: DIV

DIV — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:01:56 +0000

In reply to LR Steve.

I think Android has to do something in to advertising the product… I didnt hear this untill few days…they have to spend much on advertising..

By: Robert Holland

Robert Holland — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:58:39 +0000

In reply to ken.

Hi Ken – I appreciate your feedback. I'm still new to blogging – this site is only 7 months old – so I'm working hard on improving my writing skills and ensuring I proof read before publishing, which I did not do with this article (unfortunately). I have to work especially hard at this now that my content is syndicating into Google News.

I did go back through it to edit.

Thanks again for visiting and commenting

By: LR Steve

LR Steve — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:04:07 +0000

Uh? Smart Phone sales are expanding at an accelerated rate and Apples share of that exponentially expanding market may be slipping… but the sheer number of phones being sold by Apple is increasing rapidly and still way ahead of Android OS units. You will see the first quarter 2010 sales report from Apple will reflect record sales of their phone. Your framing of these statistics is grossly misleading and a distorted characterization of the smart phone market today. Android is definitely a major player and will challenge Apple… but I wouldn't say that these stats have the dire implications you write about.

By: dcopen

dcopen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:17:59 +0000

Lastly, we need to consider that every member of the big four is carrying an android device. We now have a 4:1 ratio of android to iphone selling potentials. This has nothing to do with flash or HTML5!! You haven't shown a drop in market share so we have no idea if you're even correct! Please go back and fix this article with real market penetration numbers.

By: dcopen

dcopen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:14:11 +0000

Now if this chart is only referring to carrier requests then we need to look at how apple operates their business and how they fill orders. If they’re releasing new products during a coming season they drop their out-put to clear out their retailer’s supplies. This obviously makes room for the new product and helps reduce waste.

All of this is the basics of supply and demand however it gets tricky when we’re talking about ever updating technology. For instance your “proof” that demand is dwindling. The reason you don’t see anyone buying iphones for absurd prices on ebay anymore is due to the fact that Apple and AT&T saw this as an opportunity to make more money, by offering phones contract free! Not because demand is low but because they found a cheaper way to fill their demand.

By: dcopen

dcopen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:13:46 +0000

Please learn how to read a graph! This is for total purchases for that time period. Not total market penetration like you’re implying in your article. Since you didn’t post your sources we don’t know if this is actually consumer requests or carrier requests.

If it’s consumer requests then you have to consider the company we're focusing on, Apple. They're very good at building hype each year with "new" products. You'll see a spike in sales during the summer, or whenever the product is released, and then the sales taper off as the next season rolls around. Customers are waiting for the next "new" product to drop. This has an effect on the carrier as well. They will decrease the amount of requests because consumers are waiting.

By: dcopen

dcopen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:13:00 +0000

By: ken

ken — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:43:14 +0000

I was most impressed with the grammar in this article. Too bad Google doesn't have a better way of prioritizing and aggregating news search results, I'd like to be reading more relevant articles than this.

By: Patty

Patty — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:59:59 +0000

The chart DOES say a lot:

It takes a long list of different companies… making a large number of different (copy-cat) phones… to even come close the 1 phone: The iPhone.

By: Patty

Patty — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:59:00 +0000

The chart DOES say a lot:

It takes a long list of different companies… making a large number of different (copy-cat) phones… to even come close the 1 phone: The iPhone.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:58:18 +0000

> The iPhone craze of 4 or so years ago

Huh? What iPhone were you using in March 2006?

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:58:00 +0000

> The iPhone craze of 4 or so years ago

Huh? What iPhone were you using in March 2006?