Apple may not be the world’s largest computer maker, but a growing number of reports put the Cupertino, Calif. iPhone company as the largest global smartphone manufacturer, topping beleaguered cell phone giant Nokia.
The pronouncement from Strategy Analytics means Apple is now tops in smartphones shipped during the second quarter, as well as revenue in the first quarter. The company grew 141.8 percent compared to 2010, far outstripping the world growth rate of 11.3 percent, IDC announced earlier.
Apple’s smartphone marketshare stands at 18.5 percent of global shipments, up from 13.5 percent during the same period in 2010. Last week, Apple reported selling a stunning 20.34 million iPhones during the previous quarter.
Android-maker Samsung ranks No. 2 in global smartphone shipments with 17.5 percent of the world market. This despite a 520 percent annual increase in shipments, according to Strategy Analytics.
Nokia continues its free fall in the smartphone sector. After becoming the first smartphone maker to ship 100 million units in a single year, the Finnish cell phone giant’s global smartphone marketshare was cut by more than half. Nokia lands in third place with 15.2 percent of the global market, down from 38.1 percent of smartphone shipments during the same period in 2010.
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.
6 responses to “Nokia Freefalls Towards The Abyss As Apple Becomes The Biggest Smartphone Maker In The World”
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I’m sure glad this is an Apple site or there would be 1000’s of pages about how Android outsells the iPhone, blah, blah, blah… Apple makes 2 phones, one is over a year old and the other is over two and they STILL lead the pack! I can’t wait to see the predictions come true and 35% of all smartphone buyers go with iPhone 5!
-Chris
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Call me insensitive and politically incorrect, but it’s so nice to hear that Apple is doing so well, and some OTHER company is being called “beleaguered”. Back in the 90’s and early 2000’s I got so tired of hearing that adjective applied to Apple.
The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5