{"id":270455,"date":"2010-02-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=12854"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T15:00:00","slug":"iphone-suffering-razr-burn-as-consumers-chose-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270455","title":{"rendered":"iPhone suffering Razr burn as consumers chose alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12854\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iphonejail.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/>iPhone sales may be nearly doubled Christmas 2008 to 2009, but the smartphone is facing increasing competition, and has suffered a significant loss of market share in Q4 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in Q4 2009, which was below analyst expectations.&#160; According to ABI Research this represents a drop in market share form 18% in Q3 to 16.6 % in Q4.<\/p>\n<p>The stumble can be attributed to increasing competition from high end handsets like the Motorola Droid and devices such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=htc-leo\" >HTC HD2<\/a> and a rather stale device line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Morgan, an analyst at ABI Research, says Apple could be running into a case of \u201cRazr burn\u201d, referring to the meteoric rise and as precipitous fall of the iconic handset which remained essentially unchanged for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Rob Endele noted &quot;Even in the pain, Apple is realizing a much higher level of profit than any of the other handset vendors. Clearly, Apple is favouring profit over market share,&quot;&#160; &quot;That is consistent with Apple&#8217;s strategy. The company may very well continue to drop market share, but you will see them hold viciously on the profits.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>With Apple insisting on a high profit margin and carriers increasingly having alternatives to spur consumer data usage demand, it is likely the iPhone will dwindle into a niche market just like Apple computers<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/story.xhtml?story_id=0020005FD8N2&amp;page=1\" >Newsfactor here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D12854&amp;linkname=iPhone%20suffering%20Razr%20burn%20as%20consumers%20chose%20alternatives\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone sales may be nearly doubled Christmas 2008 to 2009, but the smartphone is facing increasing competition, and has suffered a significant loss of market share in Q4 2009. Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones in Q4 2009, which was below analyst expectations.&#160; According to ABI Research this represents a drop in market share form 18% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}