NPD: Next iPhone Faces Growth Challenges

Joseph Palenchar On Sep 11 2012 - 11:20am

Port Washington, N.Y. – Apple will enjoy great success in the U.S. with its next iPhone, but it will be much harder this time around to “achieve the equivalent blowout sales success that the iPhone 4s enjoyed,” NPD Group said.

The “inevitability of easy market share gains in the U.S. is not quite so apparent this time around as it has been in the past,” said Stephen Baker, NPD Group’s telecom industry analyst.