Jeff Campbell
05-21-2009, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/05/20/apple_shares_of_smartphone_market_up_more_than_twofold.html' target='_blank'>http://www.appleinsider.com/article...an_twofold.html</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple saw its share of global smartphone market more than double on a year-over-year basis during the first quarter of the year but still has much work to do before catching BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and market leader Nokia."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1242871310.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p>Doubling their sales and market share in years time isn't too bad, but 10.8% isn't the highest market share Apple has seen in the smartphone category. Back in 3rd quarter 2008 they had 13% market share on sales of 4.7 million. Still, this is nothing to sneeze at, although it is expected that the next quarter of this year won't be quite as stellar. Why is that? The expected announcement of a new iPhone of course! </p>