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iPhone: Big in Taiwan

by John Paczkowski
Posted on January 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM PT

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True Apple iPhones are proving just as popular in Taiwan as the “iClone” knockoffs peddled by Asian counterfeiters. According to December retail data, the iPhone–though it only launched last month–is already the sixth most popular handset in Taiwan. Apple (AAPL) sold 12,000 iPhones in the region during December, 2.2 percent of all cellphones sold. That’s a far cry from the 29.8 percent and 18.1 percent shares claimed by Nokia (NOK) and Sony Ericsson, respectively. But it’s relatively close to Motorola’s (MOT) declining 8.3 percent share. An impressive first-month showing for Apple.

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  • philip Chu
    according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_...
    the number cellphone users in taiwan is 23,249,000 and your market share size is 545,000. Are you saying one of out four people changed their cell phone in the month of December?
  • philip Chu
    Correction to the previous comment. i meant to say one out of forty.
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