We see the $50 to $150 price band as the critical battleground in the mobile device market in 2013. Nokia stands to lose most as competition increases dramatically at this price point. This price band will define the frontier of where smartphones are pushing into feature phone territory ...
Counterpoint Technology Market Research (Counterpoint Research hereafter), a pioneer in smartphone market data, has published its monthly report of the global smartphone market which analyzes and aggregates data from 25 markets globally to get the pulse of the market. Some key takeaways - Samsung is selling close to 25 million smartphones a ...
Counterpoint Research releases new data of the Handset / Smartphone market. In the recent Country Market Share Report for Q4 2012, we find that Apple's iPhone shipments take over the Japanese market. - Apple took 16% market share in the fourth quarter of 2012 and 15% for the full year of ...
Just two companies take 95% of the profits in the mobile handset industry: Apple and Samsung. Counterpoint Research has released its preliminary Q4 2012 mobile handset and smartphone results. The most stunning part is that Samsung took 25% of the industry profit while Apple took 70%. Leaving a tiny ...
Samsung – from fast-follower to first-mover. There has been a lot of talk over the last week with Samsung increasing its share in the market even beyond Nokia. This was the final but necessary blow to Nokia’s multi-decade-old leadership in the mobile industry. It’s actually interesting to see that there ...
Who can actually compete against Samsung or Apple at all? or what would you need to attack Samsung or Apple? With the two leading smartphone manufacturers having a combined market share of over 60% and a profit share of more than 95%, the question arises how long this ...
With the smartphone market share so consolidated and dominated there are only few “windows” of opportunities to enter the market, let alone opportunities for game-change. Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface could be both, but it remains to be seen how Microsoft will digest this opportunity. The tablet market is ...
Our August report reveals the numbers behind last month's handset market. Samsung takes 23% of the global market while Nokia and Apple fall behind, again. We estimate the August market to have been dominated by Samsung once more as rivals fall behind in lack of new compelling smartphones. We find ...
The demand in the handset market during July 2012 shrunk compared to June. We measure demand as the amount of handsets sold through the retail channel to subscribers, which is sell through or sell out volume. Due to weak demand in Europe and North America along with the stagnant ...
It looks like Google has won the first round on this one. Of the numerous lawsuits that have been spun around the smartphone industry, this was one of the largest in amount, $1 billion. It also is a lawsuit around the fundamentals of the Android ecosystem, the Virtual ...
