iPhone to claim 35% of US (touchscreen) market this year

Jonny Evans
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July 09, 2008
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Apple's iPhone 3G will grab 35 per cent of the US market for touchscreen-equipped mobile phones by the end of the year, new research claims.

Bonny Joy, analyst at Strategy Analytics, said, “We estimate the Apple iPhone will account for 6.3 million of the 18.1 million touchscreen phones sold in the United States during January to December 2008, for an impressive 35 per cent marketshare. We expect the release of the heavily-subsidized 3G iPhone 2.0 on July 11 to catalyze a healthy spurt in touchscreen volumes during the second half of the year.”

Neil Mawston, Director of Strategy Analytics, added, “Apple is in a strong position today but its rivals are not standing still. Samsung and LG already offer numerous, popular touchscreen models such as the Instinct and Voyager, while Blackberry and Nokia are scheduled to launch their own portfolios in the coming months with the Thunder and Tube. Clearly, the competition is rising fast and hanging on to that 35 per cent marketshare will be a major challenge for Apple in 2009.”

Do you think it will be a challenge? 

Comments (4)

MadMike | July 09, 2008 - 9:30am

Do "analysts" actually DO anything? US Touchscreen market.... WOW... What about the US Phones that start with a lower case i Market!?!?! HUH? MR. I'M SO SMART BECAUSE I'M AN ANALYST GUY?!?!

 

You look up freely available information and you pump it into an excel spreadsheet. Wow, your job is so freaking cool!

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Downward (not verified) | July 09, 2008 - 10:32am

Seriously, someone actually wasted their time writing this and researching it. really the iphone has a big stake in the touchscreen market. that's revolutionary. How someone could print or make the effort to share useless information. I'm touched.

WAIT!!!

Now that i think about it that figure seems low, people actually bought LG products...that's really actually very shocking to me.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 09, 2008 - 12:22pm

Hey, you can't use the sentence "I'm touched".

Apple copyrighted it...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 09, 2008 - 11:34am

Pretty amazing to remember that Apple was the newcomer to the mobile phone market just 1 year ago, and now everyone else is basically playing catch-up!

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