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Global Smartphone Data:
- Global Hardware brand Q2 2014 shipments broke down as follows (IDC):
- Samsung: 24.9%
- Apple: 11.7%
- Huawei: 6.7%
- Lenovo: 5.2%
- Others: 46.7%
- In Q2 2014 Global Mobile Smartphone shipments hit an all-time high of 301.3 million units (IDC)
- 84.7% of units shipped contained Andriod OS
- 11.7% of units shipped contained Apple iOS
- 2.5% of units shipped contained Windows OS
- The remaining <1% is Blackberry and Other
- Apple sold over 10 million iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in its first weekend of availability (Apple)
- iPhone 5S and 5C sold 9 million units in its first weekend in September 2013 (*5S and 5C launch included China which iPhone 6 did not) (WSJ Online)
- iPhone 5 sold 5 million units in its opening weekend in September 2012 (WSJ Online)
- As of August 2014, the breakdown of iPhone devices in use in the market was as follows (Localytics):
- iPhone 5: 27%
- iPhone 5S: 25%
- iPhone 4S: 21%
- iPhone 4: 13%
- iPhone 5c: 8%
- Other: 5%
- “In 2012, less than half of smartphones priced at $80 had a processor faster than 1 gigahertz. Last year, nine out of ten at this price did” (BBC News)
US Smartphone Data:
- Top operating systems used by US subscribers for the three months ended in July 2014 are (Comscore):
- Android: 52.5%
- iOS/Apple: 41.4%
- Microsoft: 3.3%
- Blackberry: 2.5%
- Top Smartphone brands in use in the US for the three months ended July 2014 are (Comscore):
- Apple: 41.4%
- Samsung: 27%
- LG: 6.5%
- Motorola: 6.3%
- HTC: 5.3%
- The top Smartphone Apps in July 2014 in the US were Facebook, reaching 71.6% of users, YouTube, reaching 53.7% of users
- In July 2014 Yahoo! had two Apps break the top 15 in the US with Yahoo! Stocks reaching 30% of users (#9) and Yahoo! Weather reaching 25.5% of users (#12)