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Subject: 30% Marketshare in the US
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aemobile 29.10.09 - 01:31pm
Apples iPhone has *it 30% marketshare in the US, according to ChangeWave. When laying out the current players, 4,225 consumers were surveyed, 39% of whom owned smartphones, and of those the top 3 answers were RIMs Blackberry down ever-so-slightly to 40%, the iPhone up 5% to hit that 30% mark, and Palm steady at 7%. As sibling-site PreCentral.net points out, Windows Mobile, Android, and Symbian werent even included on the chart (does that mean the percentages were too low and unchanged to graph, Changewave?)
Going forward, iPhone retains the lead for planned future smartphone purchases, though dipping from 44% in June to 36% in September). RIMs second, with 27% up from 23%, and Palm again holds steady at 8%.
Customer satisfaction, however, remains Apples biggest advantage. The iPhone has a lofty 74%, way out ahead of second place RIM at 43%, LG at 39%, Sanyo at 36%, HTC at 35%, and Palm at 33%. Droid-maker Motorola is at 32%, Nokia at 29%, Samsung at 29%, and Sony/Ericsson at 17%. Ouch.
The bottom line according to Investorplace?
In the horserace among manufacturers, the release of the iPhone 3GS has led to a big jump in smart phone market share for Apple and has placed them within striking distance of Research In Motion whose slew of models are still number one but have fallen to their lowest level in two years. *
