www.statista.com/topics/847/apple/chart/610/apple-s-stock-price-after-major-product-announcementsAt its introduction, Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, described the iPhone 5 as the “the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.“ It seems he was right. Apple shares were in record territory after the company announced that pre-orders of the iPhone 5 topped two million in the first 24 hours. That was more than double the previous record of one million orders set last year by the iPhone 4S. According to IDC, Apple and Google are running away with the smartphone market. IDC's figures for worldwide smartphone unit sales and market share in Q2 2012, by operating system are: Android - 104.8 million units, 68.1 percent share (46.9 percent last year); iOS - 26 million units, 16.9 percent share (18.8 percent last year); BlackBerry - 7.4 million units, 4.8 percent share (11.5 percent last year); Symbian - 6.8 million units, 4.4 percent share (16.9 percent last year); Windows - 5.4 million units, 3.5 percent share (2.3 percent last year); Linux - 3.5 million units, 2.3 percent share (3 percent last year); Others - 0.1 million units, 0.1 percent share (0.5 percent last year).
