Apple Smartphone Sales Grew 49.2% in 1 Year-HTC Grew Even More! 60.6%

Who would have thought 3 years ago that Apple’s iPhone would capture 17% of the smartphone market and reinvent the way third party software is priced, marketed and sold. Not me, that’s for sure. I thought for sure that the iPhone would join the Motorola-Apple ROKR (remember that clunker?) in the bad product idea hall of infamy. And, yet Gartner Group (via AppleInsider) tells us that…

Apple’s iPhone captures 17% of worldwide smartphone market

It should be noted that other manufacturers are growing quite nicely to compared to Apple’s 49.2% growth from the 3rd quarter of 2008 to the 3rd quarter of 2009. RIM matched nearly matched pace with 46.9% growth and 20.8% of the market. HTC (makers of Windows Mobile and Android phones) grew at a blistering 60.6% pace. The losers are Nokia with an anemic 4.4% growth and a loss of marketshare (down from 42.3% to 39.3%) and “Others”.

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