Apple iPhone surpasses Blackberry in Europe to become #2 smartphone vendor

Chauncey Dupree
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August 18, 2009
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While still trailing significantly behind Nokia, Apple has passed RIM's Blackberry to become the number two smartphone vendor in Europe, according to estimates made by Canalys.  The market share increase is staggering (over 1000% growth)!

Other interesting stats: Apple's iPhoneOS accounts for 13.7% of global handsets.  In the US, the iPhone is 23.3% of smartphones (compared to Blackberry with over 50%).  In Asia, Sharp and Fujitsu trail Nokia who has over 50% of the market.

Comments (3)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 18, 2009 - 9:36am

...it has just named the Canadian company the fastest growing firm "in the world"...
How things can be described in such different ways, it's fascinating! (meh...)

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/18/fortune-names-rim-fastest-growing-com...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 18, 2009 - 5:14pm

This is because different things are being described. 9to5's article was about market share, not company growth as a whole.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | August 18, 2009 - 11:07pm

No... 9 to 5's article was about ESTIMATED market share. So really the BlackBerry likely still reigns #2. Who cares what a little small company estimates. Seriously, if the iPhone was outselling the BB in Europe it would be reported by more than one no-name "estimating agency". Yikes.