They came out very well, made record numbers, climbed to get to the world's top third position in terms
of smartphone market share.
Google's Android operating system gained US
smartphone market share in the quarter which ended in July while Blackberry maker Research in Motion, Apple and Microsoft lost ground, digital tracking firm comScore said.
Japan - based research firm Techno Systems Research predicts that the
global smartphone market share of dual - camera phones will rise from 5 percent in 2016 to 34 percent by 2020.
And the
worldwide smartphone market share of Apple and Samsung is expected to decline to around 14 percent and 25 percent, respectively, with both companies» combined smartphone shipment expected to stagnate at around 460 million units in 2014.
A recent comScore report estimated that RIM's
U.S. smartphone market share declined from 39 % to 22 % over the twelve month period ended July 31, 2011.
The company's contentment with its PC position and its over 40
percent smartphone market share at its peak caused the company to become slothful in its mobile strategy.
The potential changes here are interesting because Android is the most widely used phone operating system in the world, with 88 percent of
smartphone market share as of November, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
Largely, the new IDC report
on smartphone market share in China was focused not just on Apple, but on the growth of the top five smartphone companies serving the region.
But considering its track record, it seems realistic to expect that Apple will justify that kind of bump, by continuing to
gain smartphone market share and achieve strong growth in emerging economies.
The fortunes of the once - dominant smartphone manufacturer have all but evaporated, and now its devices occupy just 0.2 percent of the
total smartphone market share.
Two separate market share reports show that Samsung, Lenovo / Motorola and Xiaomi all lost out in global
smartphone market share year - on - year, while Apple and Huawei made gains.
Two weeks later, comScore's monthly report on U.S.
smartphone market share showed a 4 % uptick in May for Google's Android platform, with every indication of continued growth.
Apple owns smartphone profits, Google
owns smartphone market share, and RIM has seen its handset business decline in several key regions quarter after quarter.
According to data released in October 2016 by GFK, Huawei's global
smartphone market share rose to 11.3 % ², an increase of 1.4 % compared with the same period in 2015.
The speed of growth is actually higher than even what Huawei intended, as the manufacturer said in February 2016 that it intended to become the second largest smartphone manufacturer in terms of
smartphone market share within three years, and aimed to be the largest smartphone manufacturer within five years.
However, this could become a tremendously attractive market for a Samsung smart speaker and could even bolster the company's efforts to
raise smartphone market share in the country.
Having sustained a decline in
smartphone market share over the last 18 months, the company is hoping 2016 will see a return to form, and the Galaxy S7 — and the curved - screen Galaxy S7 Edge — is poised to lead that charge.
Huawei began selling its flagship phones in the US earlier this year and currently holds a reported 0.4 %
smartphone market share there, compared to Apple's 39 % and Samsung's 23 % share.
Sony still hasn't managed to dig itself out of the ominous Others category in
smartphone market share breakdowns, but it did surpass Apple to become the second - largest smartphone brand in India back in April.
Prior to this announcement, TouchPal, founded in 2008, was already powering HTC's M8 series in China, as well as select devices from ZTE, Alcatel OneTouch, Gionee, Sony (both the Xperia Z3 and NEX smart cameras), Smartisan, Huawei, Xiaomi (for Hong Kong and Taiwan), Meizu and many more; thus taking up 18 percent of the Android
smartphone market share as of mid-2014.
Despite holding fourth place in the
U.S. smartphone market share, after Samsung, Apple and LG, ZTE is under scrutiny by U.S. intelligence agencies, which believe that it and fellow Chinese smartphone maker Huawei may pose security concerns.
Sony has previously been rumored to be ditching OmniBalance with new devices coming at MWC in 2018, and it's a notion that would make sense if Sony wants to get a greater grip
on smartphone market share.
According to recent figures from IDC highlighted by the end of 2017, Samsung occupied a 21.6 - percent
global smartphone market share, with Apple in second place with 14.7 - percent.
It's true that RIM is the current leaders in terms
of smartphone market share, but that won't be for long as iPhone and Android have been taking over while RIM has been losing market share for the past quarters.
HTC's market value has slumped about 75 percent in the last five years to $ 1.8 billion as
its smartphone market share dipped below 2 percent.
Android still dominates sales, according to Kantar, but Apple grew
its smartphone market share in every country surveyed except the U.S.
«During the first eight months of 2016, Apple saw
its smartphone market share remain at a record low compared to the last few years,» Counterpoint research director Jeff Fieldhack wrote.
In its most recent report on the U.S. mobile phone industry, market research firm ComScore Inc. found that Google Inc.'s Android platform held 51.6 % of
smartphone market share, compared with 32.4 % for Apple.
But with Google's Android accounting for more than half of the U.S.
smartphone market share, Android Auto is an equally important technology for car buyers.
Of course, it could be worse... Microsoft dropped down to only 8 % of
the smartphone market share while BlackBerry circles the drain at 1.9 %.
It had
a smartphone market share of 23.8 percent.
As it stands, Mahaney, the RBC analyst, doesn't expect the Fire phone's U.S.
smartphone market share to crack 10 %, even after the price drop.
A report has found Microsoft's US
smartphone market share has ceased to decline for the first time in 2012
Nokia probably won't become a tablet maker anytime soon, unless it gets
its smartphone market share back up to such a point where it gains relevance once again (and revenue to support the endeavor), or it gets bought out by Microsoft.
HP TouchPad isn't planting its foot deep in
the smartphones market share.
Rim went from having 40 + % of
the smartphone market share in 2007 to 26 % today so how is that rising?