“Apple’s iPhone has spurred Australian smartphone shipments up 29 percent year on year in the first half of 2009, according to research firm IDC,” Kathryn Edwards reports for Computerworld.
“IDC telecommunications analyst, Mark Novosel, said the iPhone has kept the other smartphone manufacturers on their toes and experienced considerable growth over the past 12 months,” Edwards reports. “‘What the iPhone has done is ensure that all other manufactures have had to include similar features. The whole industry has benefited as a result of the iPhone in terms of the rapid pace of innovation, which has intensified of the past couple of years.'”
Edwards reports, “Apple now sits in second place in the smartphone rankings, trailing Nokia and ahead of BlackBerry, with market share more than doubling to 21 percent in Q2, due to the launch of the iPhone 3GS and price cuts to the iPhone 3G.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Oy, oy, oy!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
I can’t help but notice here in Perth Australia the number of people listening to iPods/iPhones. Almost every solo jogger/walker is listening to an iPod. You’ve got to see it to believe it.
Yeah, that iPod (now iPhone & Touch) on every jogger/commuter has been über-apparent stateside for 6+ years now.
It won’t be long before it’ll be 50%.
It’s saved a few people getting lost in the rain forest, with it’s GPS.
And it has a time table for rail and you have an app to see which restaurant to avoid, if they’ve had fines in the past.
It has been a massive uptake. For example.
3G launches (1st in Aus) Me, Paul and Brad get them.
Now
My brother has one.
Brad’s girlfriend, girlfriend’s mum
My old girlfriend and her mum
My mate Dom, his girlfriend
My mate Gareth, his girlfriend soon after, then his girlfriend’s mum.
When I go to a party with these guys, we all take out our phones, out of about 20 people, about 4 don’t have them. It is actually ridiculous. Every bus, there is a large amount of people on iPhones. Every restaurant, every meeting I go to. They are everywhere here!
It’s funny that even with the horrible inconsistency for dropped calls (fairly often) and other problems, every person loves their iPhone, even with it’s faults, and can’t imagine life without it! I do hope the whole reliability thing gets better, it can be frustrating sometimes…
“It has been a massive uptake. For example.
3G launches (1st in Aus) Me, Paul and Brad get them.”
What about Brad’s cat?
SB. Bred’s cet.
Just think what the numbers would be like if:
Telstra australia’s largest and fastest 3g 850 network was actually half interested in selling the iPhone
And
Apple had enough stock for Vodafone and Optus to sell
I’ll be traveling to Australia with my unlocked 3G. Who should I buy a sim card from to get decent coverage in Sydney and Cairns? Cheers.
Of course, to Dances With Monkeys, 21% is just a rounding error.
I guess Australians have never hear of Microsoft Mobile?
From the article,
“‘What the iPhone has done is ensure that all other manufactures have had to include similar features. The whole industry has benefited as a result of the iPhone in terms of the rapid pace of innovation, which has intensified of the past couple of years.'”
INNOVATION?
Dude, there is no innovation involved in copying Apple’s iPhone, feature by feature.
Now, do you want a second or third class copy with App-Lack or do you want the real thing?
Birdbath, mate.
@K
Telstra has the best coverage by far but is also the most expensive.
In my Chemistry and Physics Lab classes at uni the number of these devices is astounding. I encourage the students to photograph their experiments to assist in the write up.
I don’t know what I would do without the thing in tutorials or lab classes.
It has my notes (Aji – a brilliant pdf reader – it will handle 2000+ pages, though slow at times); our module notes, lab manual, textbook, reference books etc. Over 4000 pages. And DocsToGo for word/excel (naturally I don’t have these on my computer – I use pages/numbers and convert. I would prefer native pages/numbers but the Uni won’t be there for a very long time ……
I have my periodic table (Elemints) at hand with all the extra things that it does such as calculating molecular weights
My calculator an SCI-15C
FM touch with class records and marks
a unit convertor
MSDS (material safety data sheets)
and of course iCal – timetable; safari – in class checking of data with cambridgesoft and other reputable sites.
I photograph the paper class lists/marks at the end of each session in case of the paper ones going missing
and that doesn’t include signal scope (a “CRO”), signal suite (dual channel signal generator), sound meter (decibels) in physics
ipod
oh, and occasionally make/receive phone calls.
It is my lab/classroom/preparation office in a single device and I am less likely to lose it (unlike a pda, calculator, ipod, phone, notebook) because I am using it all the time.
and, good for a scientist, my mdn word is evidence!
It’s a bloody blood bath!
The Goon Show forever:
Little Neddie Pugh Seagoon
@K
http://www.pennytel.com/au/ have a PennySim and an iPhone app for cheap calls.