Source: Cannaccord Genuity channel checks

盛世再臨，Apple獨步北美！10月初，Cannaccord Genuity便預測了此一完爆敵手的盛況。

Samsung's upcoming Note 3 "should compete very well" against Apple's handsets. The future looks much more bleak for smaller competitors like HTC, BlackBerry, and Motorola, all three of whom gave up share in the "high-tier smartphone market" to Apple. September brought "very weak" demand for HTC's flagship HTC One. The story was similar for BlackBerry, which saw "very soft" sales of its new Z10 and Q10, and Motorola, where sales for its refreshed Droid lineup declined after Apple's new iPhones became available.

一如去年，iPhone新機5s/5c自9月開賣以來，橫掃美國四大電信業者門市，除Samsung GS4外的眾對手無人能撄其鋒，紛紛退出暢銷手機前三大。

Before the iPhone 5s and 5c's release, Apple, Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Sony, and Motorola all had handsets enjoying top-three sales at at least one of America's big four carriers. Apple's September announcement pushed all but Samsung out of the picture and relegated the South Korean conglomerate's Galaxy S4 to the runner-up position across the board. Apple has maintained a significant edge outside of the U.S. as well, even before the long-anticipated launch of the company's devices on China Mobile, the world's largest wireless carrier. The iPhone 5s was "by far the top selling smartphone...at most channels where the smartphone launched globally. We revised shipment estimates for the iPhone upward to 54 million units in the first quarter of the company's 2014 fiscal year and 186 million units for the entire year.

The sales data also indicated strong Black Friday weekend iPad Air and new iPad mini sales...essentially at all channels where the iPads were available.
- T. Michael Walkley with Canaccord Genuity

Canaccord Genuity的觀察呼應了Localytics早先對iPad感恩節銷售的結論。



The latest data found that traffic from the iPad Air grew 51 percent this past weekend, compared to the previous weekend. That was by far the largest growth seen in new devices tracked.
- Localytics