Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones that quarter. In other words - the iPhone had ~27% of the US Market sales.
That's... not a rounding error. That's an incredible and wild success. The price drop after September helped of course - but they'd already sold over 1 million iPhones by then anyhow.
By the end of the year they had a 5% market share worldwide. Nothing to sniff at for something only 6 months old.
Sure, if you want to define the market as "things similar to the iphone" then yes, they did have a good market share. In terms of the mobile phone market though the original iphone made up lezs that 1%of the market.
Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones that quarter. In other words - the iPhone had ~27% of the US Market sales.
That's... not a rounding error. That's an incredible and wild success. The price drop after September helped of course - but they'd already sold over 1 million iPhones by then anyhow.
By the end of the year they had a 5% market share worldwide. Nothing to sniff at for something only 6 months old.