Apple Gains Market Share With iPhone
The iPhone is now the second most mobile sold in the U.S. suggests a new study iPhone News study.For example, 30% of new 3G iPhone owners have switched to another operator to join AT&T - 47% from Verizon, 24% of T-Mobile, and 19% of Sprint. Operators who pass must surely enjoy the exclusive contract between Apple and AT&T.The report also notes that if the iPhone v1 accounted for 11% of sales of smartphones in the United States, the model 3G took 17% market share - it makes the best-selling smartphone, before the truck sector as the BlackBerry Curve, the Pearl and the Palm Centro, but sold much cheaper.”The launch of the lower-priced iPhone 3G was a boon to overall consumer smartphone sales,” according to Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for The NPD Group. “While the original iPhone also helped win customers for AT&T, the faster network speeds of the iPhone 3G has proven more appealing to customers that already had access to a 3G network.”Finally, the iPhone is the second 3G mobile (all categories) sold in most countries from Uncle Sam: The RAZR3 is the only phone to do better.The NPD Group compiles and analyzes mobile device sales data based on more than 150,000 completed online consumer research surveys each month.