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WARNING: iPhone Sales Ranking in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears

by John Paczkowski
Posted on October 6, 2008 at 10:17 AM PT

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Get this: Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 3G is now the second best-selling mobile handset in the U.S, after Motorola’s (MOT) RAZR V3. According to NPD Group, the device outsold the BlackBerry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and Palm (PALM) Centro between June and August to claim about 17 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. Moreover, about 30 percent of stateside customers who purchased an iPhone 3G during that period switched mobile carriers to do so. Nearly half, 47 percent, switched from Verizon (VZ) Wireless, another 24 percent switched from T-Mobile (DT), and 19 percent switched from Sprint (S).

An impressive showing. That said, NPD’s metrics don’t include corporate/enterprise mobile phone sales, which likely favor the Blackberry above all. Presumably, the iPhone’s ranking would have been quite a bit different if it did. Still, 17 percent of the U.S. smartphone market is quite an achievement.

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  • hanio ascha
    Title is mildeading from the content
  • Ben Salter
    Second misleading title from this guy! This website or this blogger obviously has an agenda.


    OS X Market Share: 8.23 Percent Down, 82.06 Percent to Go …
  • Igor Stavnitser
    I work as a consultant for a small firm, however I see iPhone making an entry into corporate IT at many clients where Exchange is used for email.
  • Hanio ...

    Did you not see the bolded line in the post above? "NPD’s metrics don’t include corporate/enterprise mobile phone sales."

    Ben ...

    You're misunderstanding the title of the post to which you refer which concerned Apple's increasing share of the OS market.
  • Ben Salter
    Your headlines focus on "down" and "warnings" in the face of great gains. It's a negative spin with some type of agenda.
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