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Malignancy Of Smartphone
Rapid development of
mobile OS like Android
and iOS making smartphone
sales waves become
more larger. In fact, the
invasion of the global smartphone products look more wild
and smartphone sales
keep grind the feature phone
market.
Talking about the
mobile device market, is arguably that the
sector is experiencing a significant increase. But there is something interesting to note that the invasion
of smartphones looks increasingly intense along with very
tight vendors competition and mobile
operating system. So true, if a smartphone can shift the
position of the feature phone in
the mobile device market that the most
widely purchased in a couple years
ago, and now
conditions have changed. Smartphone
sales surpassed feature phone
in a short time relatively.
According to studies conducted by the research institute of Gartner, smartphone sales well
above the feature phone. Gartner
noted if sales of
435 million units
of mobile phones globally
in the second quarter
this year, about 51.8%
is the smartphone category. As for feature phone sales
globally only about 210 million units.
From this research, successful
smartphone sales increased
by 46.5%. while feature phones has decreased by 21%. Gartner also noted
if Latin America,
Asia Pacific and
Eastern Europe is the region with the highest smartphone
growth rate, 55.7%,
74.1% and 31.6%.
Earlier, in the first quarter of 2013,
IDC also released
the entire mobile phone industry reached 418.6
million units, an increase of 4% over the same quarter in 2012. IDC also
confirms that smartphones
surpassed feature phone with the amount of 216.2
million units or
approximately 51.6% of the total mobile
phone market.
By the position, Samsung
dominates smartphone market sales. According
to Gartner, smartphone manufacturers from South
Korea is more
superior than Apple with a market
share in the second quarter 2013
increased to 31.7% from the same quarter in 2012 which only reached
29.7%. While Apple
managed to dominate a market share of 14.2%.
In the first quarter 2013 IDC
also noted if Samsung
dominate sales with
a market share of approximately
32.7%. While Apple
holds share of
17.3%.
Meanwhile, in the second quarter of 2013,
IDC released data on smartphone sales reached
237.9 million units,
growing 52.3% compared to the same period in 2012 to reach 156.2 million
units. In this quarter, Samsung dominate the market with 30.4% market share
or sales of 72.4
million units. And
Apple took second place with a market share of 13.1% or 31.2 million units.
Under the both vendor, LG ranks
third with a market share of 5.1% or 12.1 million units of smartphones. For the fourth position is occupied by Lenovo
and ZTE, each selling
smartphones at 11.3 million units and 10.1
million units.
Strategy Analytics also
revealed the same sequence. Samsung is in the top
position, superior in comparison
to other vendors. And one factor that led to the best-selling
Samsung due to
Samsung Galaxy S4
demand in China
and around the world.
But, analysis from
Strategy Analytics reveal if LG become the most shining vendor
in the second quarter of 2013 as shipments of smartphones increased two-fold. Slightly
different from the IDC, the fifth
position is occupied by Huawei which recorded shipments of 11.1
million units of smartphones.
Horrible
Android Record
For sector operating system or OS, the Android platform is the golden boy
of Google increasingly dominates the smartphone market. Since Android taking
over Symbian, Android continues to rapidly sped without stopping and getting
aggressively expanding colony. Android became one of the largest providers of
global smartphone sales. While the main competitors, that is iOS, has
decreased. And that makes Android more superior is in the second quarter of 2013,
Android achieved a new record.
Almost 80% worldwide market share dominated
by Android. According to data from Strategy Analytics which was released in
early August 2013, Android accounted
for as much as 8 units of the 10 units of smartphones that is distributed globally. Of 229.6 million
smartphone units, approximately 79.5% controlled
by Android or
approximately 182.6 million units of smartphones.
Meanwhile, iOS in second place with a
market share of 13.6% or 31.2
million units. For
the third smartphone platform, Windows Phone
that is occupied by successfully sent about 8.9 million smartphone
units or 3.6%.
in the last three
years, sales of Windows
Phone could be at the highest level because of strong support from Nokia.
The same was noted by Gartner. In the
second quarter of 2013, Android became
A king of all vendors in sales
with a market share of 79%. While iOS is in second place with a market share of 14.2%, followed by Blackberry with 2.7%
and 0.4% with
Bada. And this
is proof that Android
is really horrible for the other competitors. If Android has now
become a KING, then
what looks like a
competition at the end of the year? Is Android
still be a king,
or turned into a
pawn? We'll see.
