Last weekend, Motorola Droid based on Google Android platform was officially launched, and it had been sold more than 100 thousand in less than a week. It is considered that this digit will be increased to 10 million in the end of 2010. It is seemed as if the Droid is trying its best to knock the iPhone off the mountain, it had better aim for the peak.
A report by Strategy Analytics names the iPhone as the top selling smartphone in terms of profit, with the iPhone division of Apple raking in .6 billion in the 3rd quarter of 2009. And it tops Nokia, which recorded just .1 billion in operating profit.
Although Apple only sold 7.4 million iPhones in the third quarter, which is less than half the number Nokia sold, the iPhone earns profit with each sale than other smartphones. The main profit source of iPhone is the earnings from the application download times of App Store. Besides, Apple saved a lot of money because of the vast subsidy provided by AT&T, the cooperator of Apple iPhone.
However, as a newbie in the smartphone market, the marketing achievement of Apple iPhone is quite remarkable if you consider that Apple has only been in the smartphone market for barely over two years.
But just as a fly on the ointment, the release of the iPhone in China hasn’t exactly reflected the crowds of enthusiasm that greeted it in U.S and Japan. Chinese users’ enthusiasm may be frozen by the cold snap coming one after another. It is reported that only 5,000 iPhone units were sold in its first week, and the data is decreasing day by day. It seems as if the cooperation of Apple and China Unicom is a new and long battle.
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