Friday, March 9, 2012

Apple tops the UK in smartphone sales

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Apple takes the lead ahead of RIM, the maker of BlackBerry, you see phone sales fell

displaced Apple BlackBerry-maker RIM is the maker of smartphones sold in the UK in 2011, according to figures from research firm Gartner.

The data contradict claims RIM in early February that it had obtained the first position, and increase pressure on the company in a territory that had been dominant.

According to Gartner, Apple and RIM Samsung has sold so well in the fourth quarter, and - due to its strengths during the Christmas period -. For the full year

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also cast new doubts on the future of the company, which recently replaced the co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, who served as their leaders and the presidents of the assemblies in the face pressure increases investors.

An investigator from another industry analyst, who declined to be identified, according to figures from Gartner, said the data indicate that: "from RIM on the market is certainly slow, "and that" Our early numbers indicate that they were beaten by Samsung [Apple] also [fourth quarter]. "

another research company, Kantar WorldTech, said in late December that Apple had raised its stake in smartphone sales in the UK over the last three weeks to 30.9% from 21, 4% last year.

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will be uncomfortable for RIM, whose shares have lost more than 75% of its value last year and said in December that the current financial quarter - which ends this month - only 11m-12m handset sales worldwide, compared to last year and 14.1 the previous quarter. 14.9ma

Gartner data for the United Kingdom, which take into account not only retail sales, as GfK do, but also supply chain, including Apple's own stores, suggest that Apple has had a 28.4% share of the smartphone market in the UK in the fourth quarter, driven by the introduction of its iPhone 4S and lower prices on your iPhone 4 and 3G models.

Samsung, which sells mainly to phones using the Android software from Google, has a 23.3% share, according to Gartner.

For the full year, Apple had a market share of 21.5% of sales, to Samsung with 21%, according to Gartner, both before and RIM with 20.3 %.
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