{"id":1099,"date":"2010-11-11T02:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/handset-rankings-apple-moving-up\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:47:59","slug":"handset-rankings-apple-moving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/11\/handset-rankings-apple-moving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Handset Rankings: Apple moving up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Gartner<\/a> and IDC<\/a> have recently published their handset rankings for Q3\/2010, and both have Apple moving into the #4 spot globally. That is impressive, as this is not measuring smartphones but all phones, and it is not measuring North America and Western Europe but the world.<\/p>\n

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In Smartphone-only terms, Apple has leapfrogged RIM into the #2 slot.<\/p>\n

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On a platform-basis, Apple’s iOS is now #3 behind Symbian and Android but ahead of RIM’s proprietary Blackberry OS.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, IDC has the rankings identically but the market shares of the leading players lower, which would suggest a higher share of the “others” (which is probably unduly diminutive for such companies like Motorola, HTC or Sony Ericsson).<\/p>\n

IDC’s smartphone numbers are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Gartner and IDC have recently published their handset rankings for Q3\/2010, and both have Apple moving into the #4 spot globally. That is impressive, as this is not measuring smartphones but all phones, and it is not measuring North America and Western Europe but the world. In Smartphone-only terms, Apple has leapfrogged RIM into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,484],"tags":[50,1350,79,277,285,310,342,434,471,561,569,605,623],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-oem","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-handsets","tag-htc","tag-iphone","tag-lg","tag-motorola","tag-nokia","tag-rim","tag-samsung","tag-sony-ericsson","tag-symbian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-hJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}