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Apple will have a marketshare of about 5% in smartphones and 10% in tablets in a few years
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Venturebeat also notes that this is Mac versus PC all over again.
Apple is already down to 14.9% marketshare in smartphones.
There are about 700 million smartphones shipping in 2012. By about 2018 there will be about 3 billion smartphones shipping. Apple grew by 58%, so they increased their marketshare as overall smartphones grew by 46% but that was share taken from Nokia and Blackberry.
The new stronger competitors are emerging from China.
When 3 billion smartphones are shipping every year it will be because everyone in China and many people in India and Africa will also be buying smartphones. Most of those will not be premium priced smartphones.
Apple still has more dominance in tablets, but the new Nexus 10 and other tablets are going to erode Apple market share there as well.
See more and subscribe to NextBigFuture at 2012-11-04 18:03:35 Source: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/11/apple-will-have-marketshare-of-about-5.html
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