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Apple Tops Nokia to Become World's Top Smartphone Vendor

Discussion in 'Wireless News' started by viewfly, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. viewfly

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    As noted by the Financial Times, Apple has officially passed Nokia to become the world's top smartphone vendor. Apple's rapid growth paired with a sharp drop in shipments for Nokia allowed Apple to turn a 5.5 million unit deficit during the first quarter into a 3.6 million unit lead in the second quarter.

    Shipments of Nokia smartphones declined by 34 per cent to 16.7m units, compared with the 20.3m iPhones shipped by Apple in its second quarter.

    Apple was already the biggest smartphone maker by revenue and profits, but the April-June period marked the first time it had surpassed Nokia in volume.

    Apple has been climbing the rankings of top smartphone vendors as longtime leaders Nokia and Research in Motion have faded. Apple passed Research in Motion in global shipments back in the third quarter of last year, and rapidly closed the gap on Nokia to claim the lead this past quarter.


    Apple has of course faced stiff competition from Android over the last couple of years, but with dozens of manufacturers pushing out Android devices, no single vendor has been able to approach Apple's shipment volumes. Samsung and HTC lead the Android pack and have experienced very strong growth, but each company's smartphone shipments remains about half that of Apple's

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    #1 viewfly, Jul 21, 2011
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    Well, if this isn't enough to get Nokia off their butts and into gear, then nothing is.
     
    #2 dmapr, Jul 21, 2011
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    Much as I hate to say it as a faithful Nokia user since 2000, but I think Nokia is no longer relevant as far as the smartphone market goes. Perhaps even as a mobile manufacturer. (period) While Apple, HTC, LG, Sony-Ericsson and others were innovating Nokia was sleeping as far as the technical side of things went. I think Nokia was resting on their laurels since for years and years Nokia was at the top of their game. Unfortunately for them that was a bad move and it may mean that they never recover their lead which was unsurpassed by any mobile manufacturer. They make good product, but either they didn't know how to market their product, got lazy, distracted or something else.

    It's like Apple came out with the iPhone and then everyone else came out with an iPhone "killer" but that never happens because Apple is not content to just make something and sit back. They have to further develop their product and make it better hopefully to outdo the competition (like with Android.) Companies are coming out with tablets to compete with the iPad but there too Apple is not content to just sit things out they're constantly perfecting new and better improvements on devices that they will continue to bring out.
     
    #3 Telekom, Jul 22, 2011
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    Very likely to be the case. That being said, I'd still like to see Nokia try -- if nothing else, it'll be a closure on the subject of whether they couldn't or wouldn't...
     
    #4 dmapr, Jul 25, 2011
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