After many months of waiting the white version is now available in many countries. Apple issued a press release announcing availability on April 28th.
Now there are rumours that that the white device is 0.2 mm deeper than the black version.
Apr 29
Feb 05
iPhone shipments grew just shy of 100% in the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis, giving its market share a nice jump. Source IDC.
Oct 19
A recent survey by RBC Capital Markets asked 4,200 people what phone they used. According to their slightly shaky report 30% claimed an iPhone. This shows considerable growth since they last asked. Silicon Alley Insider had the results as their Graph of the Day.
iPhone market share
Sep 11
And Steve Jobs takes center stage and delivers and new iPods, latest version of iTunes and iPhone 3.1 software.
Jobs started by saying he now has the liver of a 20 something guy who died in a car crash.
He then showed a bunch of new features – key points.
30M iPhones sold to date.
iTunes now the largest music retailer in the world
iPod huge market share
The announced new nano with video recording.
New nano
New shuffle colours.
New touch pricing.
Aug 13
The fine and trusted folks at Gertner have shown what we all knew – the iPhone is one big seller. They report that global cell phone sales grew YoY 6% in Q2 09 to 286m units and Smartphones accounted for 40m units. This sector is growing at 27% YoY. The global handset market is dominated by the big 5: Nokia 37%, Samsung 20%, LG 10% Motorola 6% and Sony/Ericsson 5%.
However in smartphones the story is way different: Units shifted.
Nokia 18,441 at 45%
RIM 7,679 at 19%
Apple 5,435 at 13%
HTC 2,471 at 6%
But what’s interesting is the change from 08.
Nokia down 2% from 47% to 45%
RIM up 2% from 17% to 19%
Apple up 10% from 3% to 13%
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