Apple’s iPhone now comprises 2.2 percent of cell phones sold in Taiwan, reports said Wednesday. More than 12,000 of 546,000 phones sold in December were iPhones.
The December sales put the iPhone in sixth place among handsets sold on the Asian island nation, according to a report in Digitimes.
Although its unclear what impact the iPhone’s appearance had on rivals, a number of handset makers saw losses in market share last month.
Sony Ericsson, No. 2 in Taiwan, dropped to 18.1 percent of the market, down from 20 percent in November. Samsung was third, falling to 17.6 percent in December from 19.7 percent in November. Motorola slipped to 8.3 percent from 9 percent.
Although there were some losses, South Korea’s LG jumped to 9.6 percent of the market, an increase of more than one percent. Likewise, top-selling Nokia inched up, adding 0.4 percent to its 29.8 percent of the Taiwan handset market.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
