
The price tag will limit iPhone sales in emerging regions in coming years, Gartner explained. But in 2015, iPhone will dip to third place with 17.2% of the 1.1 billion smartphones sold that year.Īpple's share with the iPhone smartphone platform will decline slightly after 2011 because Apple is likely to keep its iPhone prices relatively high, Gartner said. Windows Phone devices will hold only 5% of the market in all of 2011, but will jump to nearly 20% in 2015, Gartner predicts.Īpple's iPhone will garner 19.4% of the smartphone market in 2011, making it second behind Android, and will hold that second-place spot into 2014, Gartner said.

"All the strengths Nokia still has will play a role" in Windows Phone moving to second place in 2015, Cozza said via e-mail.

Nokia will also retain its reputation for solid smartphone hardware in the Windows Phone alliance, sheadded.
