Apple's market share is declining in Europe

Europe is in a boxy banking bearings and Apple's shrinking bazaar allotment admitting the addition of the iPhone 4S is a aftereffect of that. In markets like the US, the UK and Australia, the 4S is affairs like hot cakes but continental Europe is addition story.

Analysts from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech acclaimed that Apple's bazaar allotment in France has slipped over the aftermost division (from 29% to 20%) and the aforementioned affair has happened in Germany (27% to 22%), Italy and Spain too.

For comparison, Apple's bazaar allotment in the US grew from 25% to 36% over the aeon of a year. The UK bazaar allotment broadcast at a agnate clip - it went from 21% top 31% comparing Q3 2011 over Q3 2010.

The iPhone's accomplished rivals, the Android phones, are adequate a arch position beyond European countries with bazaar shares alignment amid 46% and 61%. In Germany, Android has one of the accomplished shares (61%) with the Samsung Galaxy S II acicular out as the acknowledged handset.