The popularity has made Apple the third mobile phone maker in the world, based on the analysis of international data corporation. We know that the world has infected with the fever of iPhone. In most of the countries, iPhone is the most popular mobile phone. Now Apple has expanded its business worldwide. In China, Apple increased two flagship Apple Stores in Beijing and which makes its china sales even higher.
Apple rises from the fifth place to the third place because the sales of iPhone in the last quarter of 2011 broke the record. Nokia remains the first in the market, shipping 113 million phones in the final Q of year and shares a mobile phone market of 27%. Samsung follows it with a share of 22% market share. Apple sold a number of 37million cell phones and has the market share of 8.7%. LG of South Korea and ZTE of China ranks fourth and fifth in the market. ZTE of China dose well in the market, I think. It is the only Chinese phone company on the list of top 5. The china phone mainly sells good in the low-end market.
In the list of top 5 phone makers in the mobile market, we have not seen HTC of Taiwan which is now the third hottest smart phone maker worldwide, follows Apple and Samsung. I have to say, there are so many people in the world, not everyone would like to use smart phones. A huge number of phones are sold in the low-end market. In China, huge quantities of electronic factories are making cell phones without brands. They are purchased by peasant workers in China and also sell to people of undeveloped countries, like India and Africa. They also make some cheap android phones and sell them online, mostly to the US and Australia. They also provide Free Shipping service so that consumers are more willing to buy one.
However, the technology and society are processing, and maybe one day, people worldwide will finally choose smart phones. They give people a better experience and easy to use. Maybe when that day comes, the list of top 5 in the mobile market will change again, some mobile phone makers we are not familiar with may jump to the front, who knows? This is a global information age.
