iPhone market share surges from 26% to 43% according to NDP

[Julius Seeker]

The release of the iPhone 4S has driven significant growth for the iOS platform, with one analysis finding that Apple's share of U.S. smartphone sales grew from 26 percent in the third quarter of 2011 to 43 percent in October and November.

According to research firm The NPD Group's data, Android smartphone sales dropped off from 60 percent in the third quarter of 2011 to 47 percent during the two-month period, as noted by TechCrunch. Research in Motion continued its decline, falling from 8 percent to 6 percent during the same time frame, while Windows Phone remained largely irrelevant with just a few percentage points of market share.

Apple is widely expected to report soaring iPhone sales when it announces its December quarter results on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The consensus estimate among a poll of professional analysts stands at 29.74 million, while the average forecast among independent analysts and bloggers is 33.4 million units.

The iPhone's growth momentum could also carry into 2012, as a recent survey of North American consumers revealed that 54 percent plan on buying an iPhone.

On another note, Apple's market cap is nearing 400 billion USD with shares currently over $420.

As for RIM, anyone got a shovel?

NDP stats source

[Flip]

Remember when Apple was just on AT&T and still did well. The latest addition of Sprint is working out for their market share, it seems. I really like Android, dont see a reason to ever switch.

[bovine]

I find that the robust app market on the iphone is a definite reason that most people who purchase an iphone would stay with ios. Switching over to android or wp7 would mean that you lose access to al those apps (shitty $1 games) and that feels like a value loss. I love the deep web integration of all of my android apps, but I think that I may switch over to the iphone side for my next phone purchase, as I find the android music player to be incredibly bad, my phone didn't get updated out of gingerbread, and the quality difference between android phones are very stark... so I would never feel like I got the best android phone regardless of the amount of research I would do. There are a million things about android that I love (expandable storage, deep sharing and web integration with the camera, robust launcher customization options, excellent google app integration, and so forth), but I may see what the grass is like on the other side. Or I might just get a new ipod touch.... one of the two.

[Julius Seeker]

Just an addition now that Apple has held their quarterly financial report.

Apple stock rocketed up to $457 per share, up from ~$420 a few days ago when they reported their quarterly sales of nearly 70 million iPhones, iPads, and iPods sold (775,000 iOS devices sold per day). Profits were 13.06 billion dollars, compared to Google - Google's total revenue was 10.4 billion.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/01 ... sults.html

In addition, US sales show iPhone outselling ALL Android phones combined for the quarter. Everything else (Blackberry, Microsoft, etc...) is completely insignificant grabbing a combined total of a mere 10% of the market - while iOS and Android take the other 90%.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/201 ... rket-share

[SineSwiper]

A short term blip because of the new iPhone. With the staggering amount of Android phones coming out every quarter, it will bury the iPhone soon enough. OSS FTW.

[Julius Seeker]

Apple is now worth half a trillion, nearly 100 billion more than the second most highly valued company in the world; Exxon Mobil. Apple stock is now valued at $536.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-is ... ars-2012-2

[Flip]

I might have an android phone and have never bought an Apple product, but I did buy a share when it was at $490 in anticipation of making a quick $100 when the iPad3 comes rolling out. I dont ignore the genius of their marketing and business plan, but I still think they are tony homo gay.

[Julius Seeker]

You better watch out for Tony Homo. If you don't keep your guard up: one day when you least expect it, he'll have sex with you!

[Blotus]

I dont ignore the genius of their marketing and business plan, but I still think they are tony homo gay.

Are you trying to set one of us off with your obvious and hateful homophobia? I will burn down the Shrine to the ground right now!

[Flip]

I might have an android phone and have never bought an Apple product, but I did buy a share when it was at $490 in anticipation of making a quick $100 when the iPad3 comes rolling out. I dont ignore the genius of their marketing and business plan, but I still think they are tony homo gay.

AAPL stock is just sick and never stops going up. I bought another share at around $550 so my basis is $1040 (the $490 one i bought earlier). As of right now they are trading at $588 so I could sell both shares at $1176. +$100 goal achieved, but I dont want to sell it yet. The last two days were +$12 and (currently) +$20 days. Its always hard to tell when to bail, I might as well hang onto it until year end and the iPhone 5.

[Zeus]

I might have an android phone and have never bought an Apple product, but I did buy a share when it was at $490 in anticipation of making a quick $100 when the iPad3 comes rolling out. I dont ignore the genius of their marketing and business plan, but I still think they are tony homo gay.

AAPL stock is just sick and never stops going up. I bought another share at around $550 so my basis is $1040 (the $490 one i bought earlier). As of right now they are trading at $588 so I could sell both shares at $1176. +$100 goal achieved, but I dont want to sell it yet. The last two days were +$12 and (currently) +$20 days. Its always hard to tell when to bail, I might as well hang onto it until year end and the iPhone 5.

You don't have to like a company or its products to make money off the speculatory idiots