France Emerges as Most Successful Market for iPhone
The world stage is looking sweet for makers of mobile phones as the world continues to embrace what analysts have come to refer to as the smart phone revolution, lead largely by two major companies in the United States market: Apple with its iPhone and Research in Motion with its famous Blackberry. Both of these mobile devices are doing better on a global scale than in previous years, but there is no serious competition being given to the world leader in such devices, the Finnish company Nokia. With a slew of products coming to market at an ever increasing pace, the iPhone 4G may wreak some havoc in the US, but it is not expected to be quite as much of a world shaker in other countries where the innovations can take a bit longer to really grab hold with the native audiences.
Europe has proven to be the new frontier and many companies are battling it out to be in prime position for the emerging market, among them are Nokia, Sony, Ericsson and of course, the Sony-Ericsson joint venture along with LG Electronics and Samsung. Compared to these European power houses, Apple and Research in Motion are severely under recognized, but they are growing. To the shock of many experts, France has proven to be the place where the iPhone has performed the best in its ratings with a full 10% of the market choosing Apple’s smart phone over all others. This makes France the biggest market success for Apple in terms of market saturation per capita.