Apple's iPhone Lost Smartphone Marketshare in Fourth Quarter
The New York Times Bits blog reports that Apple's iPhone actually lost smartphone marketshare in the fourth quarter. The iPhone's marketshare fell to 16.6% of all smartphone sales in Q4. This was a drop of about 1.5% from its third quarter marketshare of 16.6%
Apple's sales still grew, just not as quickly as everybody else's. Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, which is 18% more than in the quarter before. But the overall smartphone market grew 26% in the same period of time, as Motorola Inc. introduced its first devices on Google Inc.'s Android platform and Nokia Oyj boosted its sales by 4.6 million alone.
The last time the iPhone took a dip in market share was in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to ABI Research.
It is a very small dip but it could be an indication that other platforms - like Google's Android - are catching on with smartphone buyers.
The New York Times Bits blog 
