iPhone 5 could double Apple's market share, says analyst - CNET (blog) (Up to Date Technology iPhone 5)

Could Apple stand in the marketplace share with the iPhone 5?

(Credit: Apple)

With restrained direct for the iPhone 5, the new phone could stand in Apple’s marketplace share, according to an investor’s inform expelled yesterday by Piper Jaffray researcher Gene Munster.

Surveying a sampling of 216 mobile phone users, Munster found outrageous direct for the iPhone 5 between both stream iPhone users as well as those who own alternative smartphones.

Looking during all those surveyed, twenty-nine percent now own iPhones as well as seventeen percent have an Android phone, withdrawal twenty-eight percent with a BlackBerry as well as the rest with alternative sorts of phones.

Among existent iPhone owners, 94 percent of those surveyed design to buy an additional iPhone, withdrawal usually 6 percent eyeing an Android device. But between stream Android smartphone users, 42 percent pronounced they’re expected to switch to the iPhone.

Among Verizon subscribers in ubiquitous who do not currently own an iPhone, 55 percent design to buy one, with 74 percent privately watchful for the iPhone 5. That series compares with 53 percent of AT&T business privately available the subsequent indication iPhone.

Of all the respondents, 64 percent devise to collect up an iPhone when it’s time to buy a new phone. Further, 60 percent have been watchful for the iPhone 5 as against to permitting their stipulate to end or their stream phone to mangle down.

Though the consult targeted usually a tiny series of mobile phone users, it does prominence the clever restrained direct for the subsequent iPhone. Such direct is due in vast partial to the longer wait for time (14 months presumption the iPhone 5 debuts in Sep contra the common 12-month cycle), according to Munster.

In light of the demand, Munster believes the iPhone 5 might pull Verizon’s numbers even higher than the 3.8 million iPhones which Piper Jaffray is calculating approximately the conduit will sell in the Sep quarter. And the altogether iPhone section guess of twenty-two million for the entertain might additionally “prove to be conservative.”