Apple Is the Third Largest Mobile Phone Maker in the World
03 Feb 2012 | News | Ali Gorelova on Google+
Apple managed to push past some well-known phone makers as LG and ZTE thanks to its record sales of the popular iPhone. Now the California-based company is the world’s third biggest handset vendor, IDC reports.
This week IDC has presented the results of its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker for the December quarter. According to this report, there is a 6.1 percent boost in the market from the same period of the last year.
Figures and Apple’s Contribution
The market intelligence company estimates over 400 million worldwide shipments which surpass the expert’s expectations of 4.4 percent increase for that quarter.
Still, this growth is lower than the 3rd quarter of 2011. The growth was 9.3 percent during that period.
Kevin Restivo, IDC analyst, says that such figures are strangely low, because of the “weaker macroeconomic conditions” in many countries across the globe.
Thanks to its new iPhone 4S sales Apple helped the market grow in the fourth quarter since this iDevice was shipped in the last quarter of 2011. Still, according to Restivo, “Overall market growth fell to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2009.” It was in 3Q09 when the world’s economic recession was blooming in its fullest.
Top 5 Mobile Phone Vendors
According to IDC, Nokia has become the top vendor in Q4 of 2011 with its 113.5 million mobile phone units of shipments. Even such figures are lower than from a year ago (down 8.2 percent).
Samsung has reached over 97 million units of shipments which helped this South Korea’s company to come in second. Its results are up 20.9 percent over last year.
Apple came in third with its 37 million iPhones shipments and remarkable 128.4 percent growth. The iCompany shared 8.7 percent of the market. As the company’s CEO Tim Cook mentioned, “Apple’s momentum is incredibly strong.” Besides, he said that Apple has some incredible new products in the pipeline.
LG came in fourth with its 17.7 million units shipped in the last quarter of 2011, while ZTE had 17.1 million shipments.
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