iPhone Continues to Increase Lead in U.S. Smartphone Market Share Ahead of 'iPhone 6s' Debut

[Mockenrue]

Favorable comScore US Smartphone market share report: "Yeah! Eat it Samsung!"
Unfavorable IDC Global Smartphone market share report: "Market share really doesn't matter, you see..."

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

"Samsung reasserted its global leadership"
"Android dominated the smartphone market with a share of 82.8%."
"iOS saw its market share for 2015Q2 decline by 22.3% QoQ"

Personally, I think market share is very important from both perspectives.

 

[Boomish69]

US market, how about the European market for once! far more important to most of us here..

 

[TallManNY]

Impressive to grow market share with the current iPhone 10 months old. Looks like Apple will take the lead by the end of the year as the iPhone 6s will come out and no one else will release a flagship phone until 2016. After all no one is going release and go head to head with Apple's phone. Samsung got some stuff out right ahead of Apple. That was smart. But Samsung will lay low for the next four months.

Interesting side note, the Samsung smartwatch seems like a great piece of kit. It isn't out yet, I think. But folks are reviewing it so it and have had it in hand so it doesn't seem to be even close to vaporwear. Samsung really can make great hardware. And they can release stuff faster and more often than Apple. It will be an interesting competitive advantage.

 

[Dmunjal]

It's not really a surprise...

1. Apple are American, people in the US are more likely to buy it for that reason, just like how Nokia stayed more popular in the EU for longer than they should have.

2. The Networks in the US are ****ed, you basically have to have a contract over there, when the subsidized prices are rather similar across the board, there is no barrier to entry for an iPhone.

If the 24 month contract went away and people had to buy their phone up front, Apple would be in big trouble and everyone would be buying things like the Motorola X Style or the LG G4 etc.

Over here in the UK I see the LG G4 for £320, the GS6 for £380, the Style X launches at £360, while the apple alternative is £700. However on contract the price isn't really any more for the 6+...

So I dunno how Apple are keeping contract prices down, but I bet the Networks are just jacking up the price of the Androids because they can.

Nexus 6 64GB for US$399!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sdsrc=staff

Compare this to the iPhone 6+ 64Gb at $850 with less RAM and lower resolution screen. No issues with timely updates either. Great performance and no lag with stock Android.

Apple will get pinched on margins at some point.

 

[Keirasplace]

Impressive to grow market share with the current iPhone 10 months old. Looks like Apple will take the lead by the end of the year as the iPhone 6s will come out and no one else will release a flagship phone until 2016. After all no one is going release and go head to head with Apple's phone. Samsung got some stuff out right ahead of Apple. That was smart. But Samsung will lay low for the next four months.

Interesting side note, the Samsung smartwatch seems like a great piece of kit. It isn't out yet, I think. But folks are reviewing it so it and have had it in hand so it doesn't seem to be even close to vaporwear. Samsung really can make great hardware. And they can release stuff faster and more often than Apple. It will be an interesting competitive advantage.

Yeah, competitive advantage when its Tizen... And the 7th iteration in 2 years... You have to recall that people actually bought those 6 barely supported previous crap device!!! Samsung needs to learn respect their buyers!

Samsung is the total opposite of attention to detail, especially in new category products.
Its like gearheads producing products cramming whatever they can one product and hoping it will be OK.

If you buy something in a mature industry like a fridge and stove, they've OK, but otherwise I'd stay away.

I bought a very expensive tube HD TV from them in late 2001 and it only lasted to early 2006! No real support, just horrible service.

Their service is general is one of the worse in the industry; why not copy that part of Apple?

 

[stereonight]

You know when they say Windows has more viruses as it’s more widely available they say it isn’t true. Go figure.

Seriously? Who said that it isn't true? From what I know Windows has more viruses because it's the most widely used.

 

[tbrinkma]

At 0.1% that may leave a lot of unsatisfied customers.

That is supremely unlikely.

 

[tbrinkma]

Seriously? Who said that it isn't true? From what I know Windows has more viruses because it's the most widely used.

Windows has more viruses, in large part, because it spent so much of its life as a low-hanging fruit from a security stand point, and it still bears some of the scars from those early design decisions because Microsoft is unwilling to kill backward compatibility to the degree that would need to happen in order to fix them.

It's massive 'popularity' certainly didn't help things, though.

 

[Seiga]

What about world marketshare? Which amounts to a majority of handsets sold?

World market share would favor greatly in Android. You have to keep in mind, manufacturers for Android have created a lot of low end devices. iPhones are considered premium in a lot of countries. Japan and China will probably have more iPhone over Android users, but then countries like India would heavily favor the Android devices.

 

[Seiga]

Apple is like this boat that keeps speeding along. Meanwhile other companies and platforms stagnate or sink.

Amazon Fire phone, anyone?

Android Platform hasn't stagnated and it won't in the foreseeable future.

 

[Keirasplace]

Android Platform hasn't stagnated and it won't in the foreseeable future.

If no OEM is making money (Apple had 93% of profits in Q1 and still has over 85% now!), and Google is making more much money form IOS... There's a good chance it will. Having no money to invest isn't really good for the platform.