Kantar Worldpanel: Apple Market Share Firm Prior to iPhone X Release

/EINPresswire.com/ -- LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Nov 8, 2017) - The latest smartphone OS data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals that in the three months ending September 2017, iOS share was flat in Europe, but up in the USA and urban China. Android's stellar performance within Great Britain continued, with its share rising 8.2 percentage points to 63.9% in the latest three-month period.

"Maintaining or growing share in Apple's key regions is impressive, considering that iPhone X was not yet available during the three-month period ending in September 2017," said Dominic Sunnebo, Global Business Unit Director for Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. "iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus sales were below the level of iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus sales from a year earlier. But, since the iPhone 8 is not the flagship, the comparison is somewhat meaningless. Consumers buying lower-priced and previous generation iPhones prior to the iPhone X release will have a small impact on average selling prices, but this should be more than made up for when iPhone X sales begin at starting prices of $999 and £999."

On November 7, Chinese brand Xiaomi announced that it was officially beginning smartphone sales in Spain, the first European country where its phones will be available locally. This announcement brings more disruption to the European smartphone market, and although it marks Xiaomi's initial beachhead in Europe, the company's smartphones have been making their way onto the continent in significant numbers over the last year.

"Across the Big Five EU markets of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Spain, almost 1.4 million Xiaomi Smartphones were sold," Sunnebo added. "Most of those were sourced from Chinese websites like Gearbest and AliExpress. Fully 63% of these shipments went into Spain, so it is no coincidence that Spain is Xiaomi's market of choice for its European launch."

Xiaomi's existing success in Europe is not just limited to smartphones. Xiaomi was the fifth largest supplier of wearables and activity trackers last year across the EU5, where it sold 1.2 million activity trackers.

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Smartphone OS Sales Share (%)
Germany			3 m/e Sep '16	3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change			USA		3 m/e Sep '16		3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change
		Android	81.6	82.8	1.2			Android		63.6		63.9	0.3
		iOS	14.9	15.6	0.7			iOS		34.2		34.9	0.7
		Windows	3.3	1.1	-2.2			Windows		1.9		0.8	-1.1
		Other	0.3	0.5	0.2			Other		0.2		0.4	0.2
	GB		3 m/e Sep '16	3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change			China		3 m/e Sep '16		3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change
		Android	55.7	63.9	8.2			Android		85.5		82.2	-3.3
		iOS	40.6	34.8	-5.8			iOS		14		17.3	3.3
		Windows	3.6	1	-2.6			Windows		0		0.2	0.2
		Other	0.1	0.3	0.2			Other		0.4		0.3	-0.1
	France		3 m/e Sep '16	3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change			Australia		3 m/e Sep '16		3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change
		Android	74.5	79.1	4.6			Android		58.2		64.9	6.7
		iOS	19.7	20	0.3			iOS		37.1		34.5	-2.6
		Windows	5.2	0.9	-4.3			Windows		2.3		0.5	-1.8
		Other	0.6	0	-0.6			Other		2.4		0.1	-2.3
	Italy		3 m/e Sep '16	3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change			Japan		3 m/e Sep '16		3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change
		Android	82.3	84.6	2.3			Android		61.7		66.5	4.8
		iOS	12.7	13.4	0.7			iOS		37.4		33	-4.4
		Windows	4.8	1.8	-3			Windows		0.5		0.1	-0.4
		Other	0.2	0.1	-0.1			Other		0.3		0.4	0.1
	Spain		3 m/e Sep '16	3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change			EU5		3 m/e Sep '16		3 m/e Sep '17	% pt. Change
		Android	93	88.5	-4.5			Android		77.1		80	2.9
		iOS	6.3	11.2	4.9			iOS		18.8		18.7	-0.1
		Windows	0.7	0.3	-0.4			Windows		3.8		1.1	-2.7
		Other	0	0	0			Other		0.3		0.2	-0.1

About Kantar Worldpanel ComTech's Smartphone OS Market Share Data

Kantar Worldpanel ComTech's smartphone OS market share data provides the media and businesses with access to the most up-to-date sales and market share figures for the major smartphone operating systems.

This information is based on research extracted from the Kantar Worldpanel ComTech global consumer panel. ComTech is the largest continuous consumer research mobile phone tracking panel of its kind in the world, conducting over one million interviews per year in Europe alone. ComTech tracks mobile phone behavior -- including phone purchases, bills/airtime, source of purchase, and usage. It also delivers additional data to promote an understanding of the drivers of share changes, and consumer insight market dynamics. All consumer data in this release excludes enterprise sales.

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