{"id":14312,"date":"2019-09-09T20:46:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T20:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=14312"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:27:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:27:49","slug":"with-iphone-marketshare-down-will-tomorrows-apple-event-increase-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/apple\/with-iphone-marketshare-down-will-tomorrows-apple-event-increase-demand.html","title":{"rendered":"With iPhone Marketshare Down, will Tomorrow&#8217;s Apple Event Increase Demand?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Disclosure &#8211; we are happy iPhone users and have looked forward to every Apple launch event but the one expected tomorrow excites us the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumored <a href=\"http:\/\/* Apple iPhone captured 11 percent global smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, down from 12 percent a year ago (source). * Apple iPhone captured 6 percent China smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, flat from 6 percent a year ago (source). * Apple Watch captured 46 percent global smartwatch marketshare in Q2 2019, up from 44 percent a year ago (source).  * Google Pixel was the world\u2019s fastest-growing Android smartphone vendor in H1 2019 (source). * Google Pixel captured 5 percent USA smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, more than doubling from 2% in Q2 2018 (source).\">upgrades <\/a>are said to be a better camera and faster processor. Maybe even faster FaceID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we want is greater battery life, perhaps 5G (although how much faster does our phone need to be?) and something that folds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are hoping to be happily surprised with something Apple has successfully kept secret. We will see. Apple is so good with surprises, every one of their launch events is like a surprise birthday party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that said, the good people at Strategy Analytics put out some smartphone stats heading into the event. We hope you find them ad the above infographic useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Apple <strong>iPhone<\/strong> captured 11 percent global smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, down from 12 percent a year ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.strategyanalytics.com\/press-release\/devices\/strategy-analytics-huawei-takes-17-percent-share-global-smartphone-market-q2-2\">source<\/a>).<\/li><li>Apple <strong>iPhone<\/strong> captured 6 percent <strong>China<\/strong> smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, flat from 6 percent a year ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategyanalytics.com\/access-services\/devices\/mobile-phones\/smartphone-country-share\/market-data\/report-detail\/china-smartphone-vendor-os-marketshare-q2-2019\">source<\/a>).<\/li><li>Apple <strong>Watch<\/strong> captured 46 percent global smartwatch marketshare in Q2 2019, up from 44 percent a year ago (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.strategyanalytics.com\/press-release\/devices\/strategy-analytics-global-smartwatch-shipments-jump-12-million-units-q2-2019\">source<\/a>).<\/li><li>Google <strong>Pixel<\/strong> was the world\u2019s fastest-growing Android smartphone vendor in H1 2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategyanalytics.com\/access-services\/devices\/mobile-phones\/smartphone-country-share\/market-data\/report-detail\/usa-smartphone-vendor-marketshare-by-operator-q2-2019\">source<\/a>).<\/li><li>Google Pixel captured 5 percent <strong>USA<\/strong> smartphone marketshare in Q2 2019, more than doubling from 2% in Q2 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategyanalytics.com\/access-services\/devices\/mobile-phones\/smartphone-country-share\/market-data\/report-detail\/usa-smartphone-vendor-marketshare-by-operator-q2-2019\">source<\/a>). <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosure &#8211; we are happy iPhone users and have looked forward to every Apple launch event but the one expected tomorrow excites us the least. Rumored upgrades are said to be a better camera and faster processor. Maybe even faster FaceID. Yawn. What we want is greater battery life, perhaps 5G (although how much faster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[1683,265],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14312\/revisions\/14321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}