Apple's iPhone Continues to Outpace Smartphone Industry Growth

[KnightWRX]

Can someone point me to this iPhone 2 for 1 deal? Or better yet the free iPhone deal? Thanks.

Free iPhone ? Sure, any UK provider can do that, even on the 32 GB 3GS (google cache URL because otherwise you get filtered out) :

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache....html+iPhone+O2+free&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Uh huh. The iPhone has reached its saturation point. Right.

I think you made this same point many months ago, yet Apple continues to sell iPhones. Amazing how that happens.

You are right I said it looked like the iPhone was reaching its saturation point a few months ago because the marketshare growth was leveling off.

Hmm guess what this is just more proof I was right back then. The iPhone is no longer gaining market share it shows all signs to it holding steady to loosing market share to the new players.

Android and Palm are going to start eating at the marketshare as they are more and more carriers. WM7 yes will eat at some of it as well due to the fact that window mobile is so low in marketshare now that it can really only go one direction (I do not expect WM7 to get much more than 2-3% more than currently at most)

 

[LagunaSol]

Nothing, but it does mean the market share numbers are being 'artificially inflated' if the iPhone is being offered on a better deal than the other products by being subsidised more heavily. Maybe we should discount those figures from the equation too?

Hmm, since the iPhone sells for the same price or more than competing devices and is not offered in freebie deals to the extent its competitors are, how is the iPhone "being offered on a better deal" exactly?

Free iPhone ? Sure, any UK provider can do that, even on the 32 GB 3GS (google cache URL because otherwise you get filtered out)

Wow, I can smell the desperation as you try to make your point. Guess what, O2 also gives Palms and BBs away for free. The simple fact of the matter is there are more freebie deals for devices that aren't iPhones, period. And no freebie deals for iPhones in the U.S. which I believe is just a little bit larger market than the UK.

Perhaps you'd like to tell us about some killer iPhone deal in, say, Malta that would skew the iPhone's worldwide market share?

 

[KnightWRX]

Wow, I can smell the desperation as you try to make your point.

Wait what ? I made that point 3 pages ago. You're just now catching on

It's you who's reeking of desperation, trying to cling to your BOGOF theory...

 

[aegisdesign]

Marketshare is a poor approximation of success. Market activity is a much more accurate indicator.

I've lost count. How many times have we moved the goal posts in this tread to re-paint Apple in a better light?

 

[Carniphage]

I've lost count. How many times have we moved the goal posts in this tread to re-paint Apple in a better light?

"The most profitable handset manufacturer on the planet."

Is there a better light than that?

What would that light be then?

C.