Apple Records Highest Ever Market Share in Japan and S.Korea

Apple's iPhone is having some fantastic luck in various vital Asian markets, as per another report from Counterpoint Research (cap tip to the Wall Street Journal for detecting this).

The iPhone hit a record high sales market share in South Korea, representing 33 percent of month to month sales in the country in November. The stronger shipments of the iPhone in South Korea appear to have agreed with a huge slip for Samsung:

iPhone hits record sales market share in South Korea, grows to 51% in Japan

Tom Kang, Counterpoint's research executive in South Korea, says that Apple has figured out how to pass a notable development. "No foreign brand has gone past the 20 percent market share stamp in the history of Korea's smartphone industry. It has dependably been ruled by the worldwide smartphone player, Samsung. Anyhow iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have had any kind of effect here, marking the opposition's phablet sales. Korea being the world's most astounding entered phablet market (handsets with 5" above screens) truly required a huge screen iPhone for very much a period and now this thirst has been extinguished."

Kang clarifies that if Apple's supplies weren't so compelled directly after the iPhone 6 dispatch in September, its numbers might've been ever stronger in South Korea – it "could have moved to the 40 percent level," he includes.

Japan Boost

In Japan, the same report saw the iPhone sale increased to 51 percent market share in November. That was the most elevated figure all year, demonstrating that the colossal swarms queueing for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in September interpreted into a sales bonanza.

Rival brands like Sharp and Fujitsu confronted slow decreases for the vast majority of 2014.

The 51 percent figure isn't a record high for the iPhone in Japan. That was likely attained to promptly after Docomo began to offer iPhones, following quite a while of reckoning. The repressed interest saw the iPhone hit 69 percent share of sales towards the end of 2013, as indicated by information refered to by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer.

NOTE: The information originates from Counterpoint Research's Monthly Market Pulse report. It checks month to month sales figures. It doesn't reflect market share of dynamic telephone clients. 

Source: WSJ , Counterpoint Research