I think that&#x27;s being <i>just a wee bit</i> unfair.<p>Smartphone sales in the US in the first quarter the iPhone was released (July-September) were ~4.2 million units, Apple sold 1.12 million iPhones that quarter. In other words - the iPhone had ~27% of the US Market sales.<p>That&#x27;s... not a rounding error. That&#x27;s an incredible and wild success. The price drop after September helped of course - but they&#x27;d already sold over 1 million iPhones by then anyhow.<p>By the end of the year they had a <i>5% market share worldwide</i>. Nothing to sniff at for something only 6 months old.