Analysts Claim Apple’s iPhone Now Boasts 17% Global Smartphone Marketshare

It looks like not only is Apple’s iPhone profit share soaring, but its market share has shot up to 17.1% (up 4.2% for the year) as well — if you believe Gartner. That still places Apple behind Nokia with a still-dominant 39.3% (down 3%) and BlackBerry maker RIM at 20.8% (up 4.9%), but well ahead of the next biggest group “others” (which must include Palm?) at 13.1% (down 7.8%).

Smartphones in general remained strong, growing 12.8% compared to a dismal 0.1% growth for the mobile phone market in general.

Gartner has previously predicted that Android will overtake the iPhone by 2012, however, so we’re fairly certain Apple’s focus on margins won’t be changing just yet…

[via MacRumors]

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Analysts Claim Apple’s iPhone Now Boasts 17% Global Smartphone Marketshare