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Android dominates the worldwide smartphone market, running on 75 percent of all smartphones shipped throughout the globe in the third quarter, IDC reported. Samsung continued to hold sway over the Android market, but its market share slipped because of competition from a multitude of smaller vendors. Apple's iOS came in a poor second, shipping on 26.9 million smartphones in Q3 2012.

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Quoting: Further, statistics for market share and shipments "measure volume, not revenue or profit, and Apple constrains the supply of iPhones so they ... can keep prices up," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times.


I have two issues with this statement:

1) It's a Rob Enderle statement -- automatic grounds to double-check..

2) Other sources say that actually a (not identified) key component for iPhones is "not readily available". (in general? in just Apple's supply chain?)

I could easily believe either explanation. Or even both -- deliberate throttling and supply chain issues.

Does anybody have solid info?
Quoting:Does anybody have solid info?


My daughter bought her iPhone from Verizon and I know she said she could buy it from "Best Buy" and Amazon.

True or not, deliberate or not, it makes a certain sense for Apple.

They make nice margins selling to a niche market and let all the android sellers go after the less profitable fruits.

That approach does wear out eventually, and you have to come up with something new and wonderful.

The challenge of the post-Jobs era.

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