Samsung Taking Over, Perhaps Defining, India Smartphone Market
First, they launched a device that was the first real competitor to the iPhone.
Then, they launched a tablet that, at least for me, has a much better form factor than the iPad.
Now, Samsung appears to be poised to capture a whopping 40% of the smartphone market in India.
India, the second-largest mobile market (behind China). That’s pretty impressive.
Livemint.com published this article that illustrates how Samsung plans to do that. The South Korean company has approximately 15% of the 5 million annual smartphone handset sales pie (or about 750K units), and through the introduction of more smartphones and the general predicted growth of the market next year to 8 million units, that means Samsung will be shipping nearly 3.2 million handsets, or a growth rate of over 400%.
This is definitely good news for Samsung, and it’s reflective of the company’s overall global growth and attractiveness. Combined with the velocity of HTC, and especially in China, Motorola, Apple may have more to worry about than maybe originally thought. Oh, and by the way, Apple just released the iPhone 4 in this same formidable marketplace. Yep, nearly one year after its US launch.
The infamous brian cork, avowed Appleista, recently quipped that the market cap growth potential of Apple may be facing a wall soon. He and I both will likely continue to do our part to curb that trajectory by buying products from JobsCo, but nevertheless, there are others that are catching up in the design and cool factor that have long defined the Apple Experience. And, as Google continues to refine and enhance its Android OS, it will be interesting to see if Apple will be able to continue its dominance, or, crowded between the likes of HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG, and others, it will slide into a niche device that is still cool, but not worth selling a kidney for…
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