The iPhone Is Most Popular In The U.S, Not So Much Overseas

The iPhone is the leader of the smartphone market now. Every phone that comes out (ex. DROID, Hero) is always called the iPhone Killer until it falls into the shadows after a year (Palm Pre). The reason for the iPhone’s popularity is its handy iPhone OS software, and the amazing app store, but exactly how popular is the iPhone? The iPhone has lots of customers here in the US but overseas, it seems to be just another phone. For example, in China, the iPhone does not carry WiFi capabilities, limiting one of the key features, thus making the iPhone unfavorable to customers.

The iPhone is having many problems overseas, from credit card issues, to buying content from the iTunes Store. That is one of Apple’s biggest problems, getting the iPhone to a broader market. To date, Apple’s quarterly revenue is riding on iPhone and Mac sales. The iPhone is one of Apple’s key sales points, so that must be one of their priorites, to straighten out things overseas. For the past few months, Apple has been reporting good sales, but thats after iPhone and Mac sales overseas are included. Apple has been all over the place, they have to start correcting iPhone problems overseas quickly, before their sales begin to drop at the beginning of the next quarter.